Word: magna
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Bender was born in Elkart, Ind., and an his career in education in 1933 a public school teacher in Goshen. He received the A.B. degree magna laude from Harvard in 1927, and earned his M.A. here three years later. He was awarded an honorary LLD. degree at Commencement exercises last year. Fathers' College Status Admitted Students Class 1956 1964 Harvard (No.) 206 219 Harvard (%) 17.0 18.1 Other College (No.) 555 772 Other College (%) 45.4 63.7 No College (No.) 459 220 No College (%) 37.6 18.2 Har. Son Applicants 282 425 Har. Son Admitted 37.2 56.5 % of Har. Son Applicants...
...graduating from the Class of 1961 with honors, 28 are graduating summa cum laude; 13 magna cum laude with highest honors; 158 magna cum laude; and 303 cum laude. The degrees awarded in the graduate schools (also at separate affairs at noon) are as follows: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 413; Education, 190; Design, 68; Business Administration, 634; Public Administration, 46; Medicine, 131; Dental Medicine, 14; Public Health, 63; Law, 537; and Divinity...
...opened an unfortunate gap between Honors and non-Honors candidates (a hiatus corrected only a few months ago), it attracted more students into thesis writing and independent research. More than half the class will graduate with distinction; of a total of 970 degrees, there will be 28 summa, 13 magna with highest honors, 158 magna, 251 cum, and 52 cum in general studies. 468 students will receive an A.B. unadorned...
...Magna Carta. Latin America's Christian Democrats share a common heritage with the powerful European Christian Democratic parties, led by Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Italy's late Premier Alcide de Gasperi. Like the Europeans, they base their philosophy on the famed Rerum Novarum encyclical of Pope Leo XIII, issued 70 years ago and known as "the Magna Carta of Labor" because it advocated labor unions and insisted that the state guarantee to the worker a fair share of the fruits of his labors...
...only a $10 fine. He paid, and then moved on to another trouble spot. Montgomery, where he was roughed up by that city's race rioters. Kansas City-.born Bud Trillin came to TIME by way of Yale, where he was chairman of the Yale Daily News and magna cum laude in English in 1957. Among his early assignments were short stints in our London and Paris bureaus, where his most memorable assignment was the 1958 Algerian generals' revolt, during which a rifle-bearing Arab shot at him. He now regards that experience as casual...