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According to the report, raising the cutoff would “discourage ‘average’ students from attempting a more challenging program...and may simply increase the pressure [on professors] to give magna-level grades and thesis readings...
...easy being Daddy's little girl. Analysts balked a year ago when Stronach, 35, took the helm of her father's company, MAGNA. But since then, Canada's biggest auto-parts maker has posted record sales of $11 billion, up 5%--during the recession. Stronach is steering Magna further into auto assembly, last month buying a Chrysler plant in Austria next to where it already builds Saabs and Mercedes...
Science and technology were Packer’s areas of expertise from his undergraduate career. He concentrated in applied sciences and engineering at the College, graduating magna cum laude...
...that Harvard makes from leasing the Arsenal will be taxed. (This wasn’t the case in England, where tenants had discovered that they could sell their lands to the Church and then rent them back tax-free—a practice banned in the 1217 reissue of Magna Carta.) Also, the University still plans to establish a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) agreement with the city to compensate it for some of the loss. But as long as Harvard doesn’t pay the full rate on its property, the resulting shortfall could leave Watertown...
Pusey came to Harvard from Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1924 and graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor of arts in English and Comparative Literature in 1928. A resident of Stoughton Hall, Pusey played on the freshman basketball team and made headlines as the first and only Harvard-Yale “brain test” champion during his senior year...