Word: magna
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Danny was photography co-chairman in the fall of 1971 and he graduated magna cum laude in Government the following spring. In 1971, he helped found Cambridge Survey Research, Inc. with John Gorman, a fellow member of Dunster House. For the 1972 Presidential campaign, Porter and Gorman teamed up with Pat Caddell and became the most influential issues consultants in the McGovern campaign...
...another English Department case, a thesis received a magna plus from one reader and a cum from the other. After the two readers met with the third reader and Heimert, the sources said, the magna plus was lowered to a cum plus, and then a final grade was hammered out. In other departments, the three grades are usually averaged, but Bullitt says that numerical averages are too arbitrary, so the English Department decided to hold meetings instead...
Departments refuse to admit that a set number of degrees in each classification--summa, magna, and cum--are granted each year, and that this number is arbitrarily imposed. In the Government Department last year, however, of approximately 100 honors candidates, about 36 received magnas or higher. This year, only 78 people stood for honors, and the Department discussed the significant drop at their degree meeting...
...most departments, a late thesis means a penalty of one full distinction. A Social Studies thesis--more than a month overdue--which received a summa minus was dropped down to a magna plus. Few undergraduates complain about penalties for extremely late theses, although there is always annual speculation about what might happen if a student misses his 5 p.m. deadline by 12 minutes...
...people, if any, have charged that the system contains any political bias. Radicals like Herbert I. Gintis say that radical theses receive high honors. But he explained that the system is biased toward certain forms of academic discipline. An accepted mode of academic work usually receives some form of magna, while an experimental thesis runs the risk of offending its reader...