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...higher learning. After the war, he applied to 40 colleges, asking them to gamble on him despite his high school record. All but two rejected him. Davis and Elkins College of Elkins, W. Va., was willing to admit him-and so was Dartmouth. He went to Dartmouth and graduated magna cum laude...
...honor climaxes a Harvard athletic career that, despite an inauspicious beginning, has become one of the most successful in recent years. Elected First Marshal of the senior class, Kinasewich is a candidate to graduate magna cum laude and has won a Shaw Fellowship for post-graduate work abroad...
...with the further distinction of having collaborated on a landmark Supreme Court case (Gideon v. Waln-wright) before he got out of law school. Ely researched Plaintiff Clarence Gideon's appeal while working for the Washington law firm that handled the case. Second in his class at Yale (magna '63), he has since been working for the Warren Commission investigating the Kennedy assassination...
Donovan has been showing his qualifications on one or more Time Inc. magazines for 19 years. Born in Brainerd, Minn., the son of a mining engineer, he graduated magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota in 1934 and continued his study of history at Oxford (Hertford College) as a Rhodes Scholar. He was a reporter on the Washington Post for five years before serving as an intelligence officer in the Navy during World...
...admitting only upperclassmen who are candidates for Honors, by expecting advanced calculus to be completed by the sophomore year, and by requiring a thesis for a magna or a summa cum laude degree, the Committee hopes to avoid attracting unsuccessful math students "who want to sit back and take it easy," Birkhoff said...