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...MAGNA CUM LAUDE. A candidate otherwise qualified for the degree cum laude on a subject or related subjects is recommended for the degree magna cum laude who has been recommended to the Faculty for this degree by a Division or a Department or by a special committee on the ground of high distinction...
...their armaments. The second committee made the laws of war more humane. By far the most important results were those obtained by the committee on arbitration. Before the Hague treaty was signed there was no real code of International law; so that this treaty has been aptly called the "Magna Charta of International Law." By it, arbitration is not compulsory, but every nation is urged to resort to it. Four judges are to be selected from each nation, from whom each of the contending parties will select two and these judges will select a fifth. The nations must agree...
...typhoid fever on Monday night, September 18, in Rockport, Maine, at the home of his fiancée. Having graduated from Philips Exeter. Academy where he received highest honor in all departments, he entered Harvard in the fall of '94. His academic course he finished in three years, graduating magna cum laude. In the Law School, also, he was one of the first men in his class, and, as a result, was early chosen an editor of the Law Review. He was twenty-three years old at the time of his death...
Sidney Bradshaw Fay, A. B. magna cum laude 1896, A. M. 1897; II. year Graduate School; Assistant in History 1896-98. To study History...
...born in Worcester, February 1, 1874. He was prepared for college at the Worcester High School, where he was valedictorian of his class. In college he was president of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity, and was also a member of the Cercle Francais and Deutscher Verein. He was graduated magna cum laude. At the time of his death he was teaching English in the Belmont School, Belmont, California...