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Sweeping down with more fury than the Assyrian, Colonel Apted has led his band of Yard police to a stirring triumph over the college bicyclers. Today Harvard is reviving the Magna Carta of Cambridge pedestrians, the Lowell law against bicycling in the Yard, and henceforth the hateful two-wheeler is banished from the highways and byways. No longer need walkers and truckers, freshmen and presidents, stand petrified with fright while the whirling dervish streaks by streaming dust and dirt on all who watch it pass. Nightmares and dreams of sudden death are over, and all's quiet along the Charles...
...Magna Cum Laude...
Hand, who graduated magna cum laude, received both the A.M. degree and his Bachelor of Laws in 1894. He began practice in New York the next year, and joined the firm of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, and Colt. Later he organized his own firm and practiced until 1914. In that year he was appointed a Judge of the United States District Court by President Wilson...
...Graustein is not a paper man but a lawyer, a utilitarian and a financier. Voluble, aggressive, brilliant, he finds it difficult to think in any except expansive terms. Son of a German-born Boston milk dealer, he romped through Harvard in two years, graduating magna cum laude. After Harvard Law School, he entered the Boston firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins, learned about paper while reorganizing a paper company, was pushed into International by the Phipps interests. President Graustein's prime paper policy was volume at almost any cost. International now dominates the kraft industry, which mushroomed...
Daughter Mary graduated from Wooster magna cum laude. The best the boys could do was cum laude. She is the wife of the administrative head of Allahabad University's Ewing Christian College (1,500 students) in India...