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Sullivan received the A.B. magna cum laude in 1939 and the A.M. in 1940 from Harvard. As is traditional, the Chief Marshal was chosen from the class holding its 25th reunion...
...coins as the first John F. Kennedy half-dollars appeared. The new 500 piece (it replaces the Benjamin Franklin coin of 1948 mintage) was such a sellout that banks were forced to ration first-day collectors. Britain's government announced meanwhile that an acre of historic Runnymede, where Magna Carta was signed in 1215, will be given in perpetuity to the U.S. as a memorial to the late President; a simple stone plinth will be placed...
...fund for the scholarship will be the second part of a tribute to the late president. It will accompany a gift to the United States of an acre of Runnymede meadow, the site where King John signed the Magna Carta. The British intend to build a memorial to Kennedy on the land...
...Committee on Educational Policy and the departments considered broadening the base of the Cum and Magna degrees, the push toward over-concentration could be controlled without upsetting the basic concept of departmental Honors. This could be done by making outside grades one of the components in the ratio used to compute Honors, stipulating, possibly, that it constitute one sixth of the total. Thus a department which counted department grades 2, Generals 2, and thesis 1 would add a fourth category: Outside grades...
...avoid this difficulty would be to make the outside-course component in the Honors ratio optional. It would be included in computing departmental Cum and Magna degrees unless detrimental to the student's Honors standing. This does not mean a student could pick and choose which outside grades would be used in this component of the ratio and which would not. Outside grades would be considered as a group: they would either be counted or discarded together...