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Honors undoubtedly represent to the layman academic achievement of any kind, but in scholarly circles they have always indicated a particular excellence--in the writing of a thesis. The very terms-- summa, magna, and cum laude, --stem from awards given in the Middle Ages for the reading of theses or discourses. At present, however, a number of Harvard graduates get honors degrees without writing theses, through the program of Cum Laude in General Studies. While CLGS is often used to allow people with low marks as lowerclassmen to write theses, it also allows people with high marks to avoid this...
Anderson graduated magna cum laude from here in 1939. In 1954, his "Tea and Sympathy" won the New York Critics Award. He also wrote "All Summer Long" in the same year...
Meany even conceded that the Wagner Act, which labor regards as its Magna Carta, "perhaps went too far one way just as I think the Taft-Hartley Act goes' too far the other way. I never went on strike in my life, never ordered anyone else to run a strike in my life, never had anything to do with a picket line." The audience applauded, but the spirit of comradeship lasted only a moment...
...There is greater temptation to take in only the Cum Laude and the Magna Cum Laude applicants," said Dean Elder, "but this is the sure way of getting one third of your students to be dull and uninteresting...
Oklahoma! (Magna Theater Corp.) shows how far a man can go with one word of Choctaw. The Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein musical opened on Broadway on March 31, 1943, and enjoyed the longest run (2,248 consecutive performances) of any musical in world history. Counting the road companies (four) and the foreign productions (six), Oklahoma! was seen by more than 10 million and made more than $30 million. But that, as Rodgers & Hammerstein were well aware, was only the beginning. If Oklahoma! could make $30 million from 10 million theatergoers, what Mississippis of money might not pour back from...