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...qualified as freshmen during the years 1902 to 1912 inclusive, and yielded these results: That 17.7 per cent. of the public school graduates won their degrees cum laude, against 10.3 per cent. of the men from private schools; that 11.8 per cent, of the public school graduates earned the magna cum laude against 4.3 per cent. of the private school students; and that 2.5 per cent. of the public school scholars won the rare distinction of the summa cum laude. while only .5 per cent. of the men from the private schools achieved it. Also the comparison showed that...
...possible Magna Carta for world liberty" says the Transcript in hailing the covenant for a League of Nations as read by President Wilson art the Peace Conference on Friday. In the word "Possible" is to be found the true meaning of this document. In many ways it falls short of the ideals for which President Wilson has stood. We find in it no broad principle of religious toleration, no recognition of the part played by commerce and trade in starting a war. We are bewildered by the complex wording, by the vague statements which seem to settle nothing...
Dean Pound dealt at considerable length with the need of knowledge of the Common Law. He traced the wresting of the first personal rights from the King of England, their incorporation in the Magna Charta, and the great influence of that "dusty parchment" upon the Anglo-Saxon race. He emphasized the necessity of building all new projects upon the firm foundation of past experience. Especially in the practice of law should attention be devoted to the gradual growth of personal liberty and the slow progress toward a rational society...
...Laude).--William Herbert Allen, Jr., Howard Walter Boal, Fred Bates Lund, Jr., Theodore King Selkirk, William Allison Shimer. A.B. (cum Laude in Economics).--Morris Louis Levine. A.B. (Magna cum Laude in History).--Henry Vincent Fox. A.B. (Summa cum Laude in Philosophy).--Emanuel Amdursky. A.B. (Out of Course).--As of the Class of 1916: Brooks Shumaker. As of the Class of 1917: Robert Hewins Allen, George Wadsworth Cobb, Jr., Harold Willard Gleason...
...Laude).--Kenneth Safford Gaston. S.B. (Magna cum Laude in Mathematics).--Rudolph Ernest Langer. S.B. (Out of Course).--As of the Class of 1917: Harrie Holland Dadmun, Donald Williamson DeCoster, Ernest Philander Haley. As of the Class of 1915: Cornelius William Van Ness...