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...Edith Scott Magna, president-general of the Daughters of the American Revolution LL.D...
...highest scholastic distinction in the College, the degree of Summa cum Laude, was awarded to 12 Seniors, the same number as received it last year. The proportion of the class receiving their degrees cum Laude or Magna cum Laude, on the other hand, shows a substantial increase over that of a year ago, bearing out a tendency which has been noticeable during the last decade. The number of awards with distinction has steadily risen, more than keeping pace with the increase in the number of degrees awarded...
...degree of Bachelor of Arts cum laude was conferred upon Laurence Thomas Prendergast '32, of Dorchester, and also upon Harry Ayers Brinser '31, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The degree of Bachelor of Science cum laude was conferred upon Victor Abraham Rosen '31, of New York City and the same degree magna cum laude was received by Maurice Bernbaum '31, of Chicago, Illinois...
...free of charge. Thus the present status of Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard is that of an all-but-honorary society. Because each year some of the twenty-two seniors elected in the fall receive their degrees only cum laude, while a number of men who are awarded a magna cum laude at commencement cannot be taken into the fraternity on account of its limited numbers, the suggestion has been made that the proportions of men elected in the fall and the spring should be altered, to allow the election of the largest number possible on the basis of four...
...bull necked, barons rumbling down to the waters of Runnymede to defend their rights and the right. All unconscious of the fact that they were transforming English history, interested only in the problems of the day, they confronted the greatest tyrant the nation has ever known and snarled out Magna Charta. The significance of 1215 can be found in Kipling's "The Reeds of Runnymede" which the Vagabond would like to suggest as a comfortable method of absorbing history. Because he knows the lassitude of the mind, he will quote four lines from it which contain the spirit...