Word: magna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senior Honors' candidates in the division of History, Government, and Economics will not be required to take an oral examination in order to obtain a degree magna cum laude this year, if, by their course, divisional, and thesis grades, they have definitely established their claim to the magna degree, it was learned yesterday from Paul H. Buck, assistant professor of History, and chairman of the division board of examiners...
...final decision. Does this mean another convention? In addition, these students are "to be chosen first on the basis of intellectual ability; this would assure no warping of judgment as a result of poor grades." But the committee cannot seriously believe that a man, with his fingers upon a Magna or Summa, will be impartial to his department...
Except in appearance, the transparent little water flea called Daphnia magna is a good deal like a human being. In the words of Professor Arno Viehoever of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Science, who finds Daphnia useful for testing drugs, "this little animal has a divine simplicity that is miraculous. Its fundamental biological responses are very similar to ours. It has nervous, digestive, circulatory, respiratory, optic and reproductive systems...
...Father often said he felt at a disadvantage for having started in newspaper work at the top and wanted me to start at the bottom." When George Barry Bingham graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, he traveled two years, did a stint at Bingham radio station WHAS, then went humbly to work as police reporter on his father's Louisville Courier-Journal and Times. By the time Publisher Bingham became Ambassador to England in 1933, Barry Bingham was well on the way to the co-publishership he earned in 1935. Last week 31-year-old Barry Bingham, the late...
Paul graduated magna cum laude in History and is now doing graduate work in this subject. Last year he was chairman of the Graduate Schools Committee of Phillips Brooks House. In College he was an editor of the CRIMSON, vice-president of Phillips Brooks House, chairman of the Foreign Student Committee, and a member of the Political Union...