Word: magna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...further study. Students interested in courses outside their field take them at the risk of lowering their departmental Honors status. Unless they wish to graduate with a Cum Laude in General Studies, good work in outside courses remains unconsidered. Only departmental grades count toward Cum Laude and Magna Cum Laude degrees...
...Committee on Educational Policy and the departments considered broadening the base of the Cum and Magna degrees, the push toward over-concentration could be controlled without upsetting the basic concept of departmental Honors. This could be done by making outside grades one of the components in the ratio used to compute Honors, stipulating, possibly, that it constitute one sixth of the total. Thus a department which counted department grades 2, Generals 2, and thesis 1 would add a fourth category: Outside grades...
...Laude and Magna Cum Laude departmental degrees which weighed grades outside the student's field of concentration would be "welcomed by many on the Faculty," according to Dean Ford...
...Harvard students now serving in the Peace Corps constitute one per cent of the volunteers in the program. They work in 24 of the 46 participating countries. Over half of the 49 volunteers who were undergraduates at Harvard graduated with honors; one in ten graduated magna cum laude...
...just put out by London Publisher Jonathan Cape for schoolchildren aged nine to 16. The other Jackdaws (named after the mimic bird) are equally graphic dossiers on Columbus' discovery of America and London's 17th century plague and fire. Soon to be published: more kits on the Magna Carta, the Armada, the Gunpowder Plot and the boy Shakespeare (timed to coincide with the bard's 400th anniversary...