Word: magnas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attained Grade A in nine courses or their equivalent, or Grade A or B in fifteen courses or their equivalent, or has received Honors in any department, he will be recommended for a degree magna cum laude...
...graduation have made some very desirable changes. Heretofore these degrees have been granted almost wholly on the basis of As received. The present scheme, however, offers a much fairer method of counting college work. By this method it is possible, for example, for a student to receive a magna cum laude although he has not received As in half of his college work-that is, by receiving the equivalent of fifteen full As and Bs. And this is only an instance. The same general fairness runs though the entire plan. The arrangement is on all accounts an estimable...
...illissaecularibus, etiam absentes, velut praesentes interfuimus. Hodie vero e Collegii illius professoribus unum re vera praesentem videmus, virum et suo et patris et Collegii sui nomine nobis dilectum. Donec Alpium inter culmina ingentes illae glaciei moles desuper paullatim descendunt, tam diupatris illius nomen superstes vivet, qui, in Republica non magna natus, Rempublicam maximam gloriae suae fecit participem, expertus scilicet vetera illa verba quam vera essent...
...magna cum is now obtained by one "who has stood in grade A in one half of his college work and has not fallen below C in any study. This is changed from the old rule of "80 per cent. for the whole college course, or 85 per cent. for the last three years." The cum laude cannot be received by anyone who has fallen below grade C in any study...
Minister Phelps has sent to the Yale Law School a handsome framed facsimile copy of Magna Charta recently published by the British Government...