Word: magna
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Before graduation the chapter's incumbent members elect the largest group of all, usually filling out the ten per cent quota, or approximately 116 members annually. This final group comes from the top 200 members of the class, those graduating magna cum laude and others with special departmental recommendations...
...world trade talks scheduled to start in Tokyo in September. First reactions in Congress, where Mills is little short of all-powerful on economic matters, were favorable; New York Republican Representative Barber Conable, a member of the Ways and Means Committee, said that the proposals could be "our magna carta of trade." More important, Nixon has been weaning AFL-CIO Chief George Meany away from the much more protectionist Burke-Hartke Bill. A Nixon-Mills-Meany alliance would be practically unstoppable...
...three years after he graduated (magna) from Amherst, Robert Kiely was discharged from the Navy where he had been a communications officer and came to Harvard as a graduate student. His doctoral thesis, submitted in 1962, was titled "From Daydream to Modern Epic: A Study of the Adventure Fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson." With his PhD, he joined the junior faculty of the English Department, and published his first book, Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fiction of Adventure, three years later. "The question," wrote Kiely in his introduction, "is whether ... Stevenson has value for the mature reader. My object...
...effects of the McCarthy Era. J. Anthony Lukas '55 was busy covering the McCarthy hearings in Boston for The Crimson. Lukas was one of the few Associate Managing Editors ever to divide successfully his time between Widener Library and 14 Plympton--a member of Phi Beta Kappa, he graduated magna cum laude. Lukas found his true calling was in journalism and not in academics, though, and in 1968 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for an article he did for The New York Times on the background of a girl who had been murdered in the East Village...