Word: magna
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arts to an august quintet: Actor Cary Grant, 77, Actress Helen Hayes, 81, Jazzman Count Basie, 75, Choreographer Jerome Bobbins, 63, and Pianist Rudolf Serkin, 78. The gala will be broadcast by CBS on Dec. 26. Said a pleased Hayes, "Us old-timers were like kids who were graduating magna cum laude-we were really sailing above the earth...
...addition to rowing, Stevens was a Radcliffe summer intern and a member of the Harvard Model United Nations in 1978. She was also a member of the Dunster House Drama Society, where she appeared in "Equus" and was a publicity assistant for "Ah Wilderness" last year. She was graduated magna cum laude in English and American Literature and Language...
...spent an unremarkable childhood--piano lessons and private school. After graduating from Horace Mann high school, he arrived at Harvard simultaneously with World War II. "I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and English," Lehrer says, "but Math had the fewest requirements so I went with it." After graduating magna cum laude in 1946, he continued studying mathematics in Harvard graduate school. "I knew I wanted to teach and Math was my field, so I studied Math," he says...
Current rules call for students to have attained minimum grades--B-minus for cum laude, B for magna cum laude--in two-thirds of their courses to win honors...
Barone started his career as a self-described "Information junkie" during his childhood in the Detroit suburbs. Census figures, he says, were a favorite toy. From Cranbrook prep school, he went to Harvard, wrote occasionally for The Crimson's editorial board and graduated magna cum laude in 1966. He passed through Harvard Law School three years later and then spent two years clerking for a federal judge in Detroit. But the information bug never left him. And the idea of the Almanac proved irresistible. "It's the sort of thing I always wanted to read, so I wrote...