Word: magna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under rules the Faculty passed last month, candidates for magna degrees must have grades of B or above in half their courses outside their concentration requirements. Candidates for cum laude degrees need at least a B- in half the non-concentration courses...
Then there are people who are downright cheery about underemployment. Robin McElheny, a 1975 magna cum laude Radcliffe graduate who describes her undergraduate education as "worthless," works as a housecleaner in Boston and hopes to become a quiltmaker. "I enjoy cleaning houses," she says, "and I meet a lot of people doing it." For some, such as a Wellesley graduate working as a groom at a prep school's stables, there is even a certain blue-collar chic in low level jobs...
Under the new requirements, pass-fail courses reduce a candidate's chances for magna and cum laude degrees, beginning with the class...
...standards for cum laude degrees require that a student get B- or above in half the courses outside his departmental requirements, while the magna standards call for at least a B in half the extra-deparmental courses. Thus any course in which a student receives no grade is lumped together with courses he fails--no one hoping to receive honors will take any pass-fail courses...
...marching IBM Selectric lines to show you've tamed them. Pretty stupid, thought I... and proceeded to get seized by a brutal addiction to Eric Ambler. I read every damn thing he wrote, practically (even a thesis has its tiny leaks), and I don't even have a magna to show...