Word: magna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter of days - or it may require long gestation. This week's story, built around ten great U.S. teachers, is an example of the second category. "To Profess with a Passion" has been in progress for one year. Last May Associate Editor Ed Magnuson (Minnesota, '50, magna cum laude) and Senior Editor William Forbis (Montana, '39, cum laude) went their separate ways visiting campuses and sitting in on lectures across the U.S. to learn what was afoot in the college classroom...
...carries with zest and buoyancy the weighty responsibility of teaching that college's long-famed course in contemporary civilization, following the tracks of such illustrious predecessors as Rexford Guy Tugwell and Jacques Barzun. Creeping, leaping, lolling his head like a cow, he tries to span everything from the Magna Carta to World...
...arguments that he views the court's "vexatious, tormented" decision no differently than he did when he was on the other side of the bench winning the right to counsel for Florida Indigent Clarence Gideon. Apparently, much like Goldberg, he sees the cases in terms of the Magna Carta-in terms of human liberty rather than "just convicting people." While that seemed to leave the Justices split about as before, court watchers also noted that Justice William J. Brennan remained conspicuously silent, often the sign of a "swing man" who hopes to engineer a majority vote on a compromise...
...approximates the number of faculty members related to linguistics, the chances for close student-faculty contact are excellent. Quite a number of students join the field late, but the attrition rate is also high; about half don't finish, but of those that did last year, two got magna and one a summa...
...internationalist and social reformer from his father, a small-town South Dakota pharmacist who was bankrupted by the Depression. Young Hubert's education in political science at the University of Minnesota was interrupted by financial troubles for six years. Before he finally received his degree magna cum laude, he had worked as a druggist, soda jerk, janitor and hog inoculator. After marrying a home-town girl, Muriel Buck, and fathering the first of their four children, Humphrey went to graduate school and wrote his master's thesis on the New Deal. Settling in Minneapolis, where his first teaching...