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Word: magnas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After all, anyone who knows anything about what Harvard has of late years been trying to offer in the way of an education will know where to direct his smile when he sees a man stride across the platform to receive his degree with a summa or a high magna but looks in vain for any flash of gold dangling from his watch chain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOOL DAYS | 6/18/1929 | See Source »

Harris graduated from Harvard last June, receiving a degree magna cum laude in the Division of Romance Languages. He is now a student in the Graduate School, and will receive the M.A. degree this month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P. H. HARRIS ANNOUNCED 1929-30 ROGERS FELLOW | 6/14/1929 | See Source »

...Freshman year, he was editorial chairman of the Red Book. Besides belonging to the Dramatic Club and the Debating Union, he was elected to numerous other offices, including membership on the Class Day Committee and the Committee on Freshman Affairs. He graduated in 1926 with a degree magna cum laude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAN NICHOLS TO RESIGN NEXT FALL | 4/18/1929 | See Source »

...Italian front he won a Croce di Guerra for U. S. ambulance driving. A Yale graduate of 1921, he captained the debating team, was class orator, achieved prominence without athletics. Two years later while a Yale Law School student he was chosen secretary of the University. His LL.B. came magna cum laude in 1925. In 1927 he was made Dean of the Yale Law School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Men of Law | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Corry graduated from Harvard College with a magna in his field of English Literature. He was a member of the Harvard Glee Club, the Harvard instrumental Clubs, the Debating Union, and the Phillips Brooks House Association. He spent a year here during graduate work in geological engineering, and is now perfecting himself in that field in England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Rhodes Scholar Writes Contemporary Oxford Articles | 1/3/1929 | See Source »

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