Word: magnas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Huppuch, a graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover, was captain of the University basketball team and a member of the lacrosse team. He was a member of the Junior Eight of Phi Beta Kappa, and was awarded his degree magna cum laude in Economics...
Boas graduated from South Hadley High School. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and received his degree today summa-cum laude in Mathematics. Stebbins, a graduate of Newton High School, is being graduated magna cum land with highest honors in English. Campbell, who prepared for Harvard at the Lincoln School, is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and is receiving his degree summa cum laude in History...
...Magna Cum Laude
...reflected a decision in favor of oldtime. hard-driving intellect over new style business efficiency. James Conant is one of his country's foremost organic chemists. Born in Dorchester, Mass., son of an able wood-engraver, he took his Harvard A. B. (Class of 1914) in three years, magna cum laude. While taking his Ph. D. he was a teaching fellow. During the War he worked on gases, became a major in the Chemical Warfare Service. Then he returned to Harvard and, because the university feared losing him to another college, Dr. Conant was made assistant professor six years...
...citizen is jailed, his lawyer gets a piece of paper from a judge and shows it to the police who are then bound to yield their prisoner for a hearing before a magistrate on the charges and evidence' against the prisoner, or straightway release him. Long before the Magna Charta (1215) Anglo-Saxons wrested from king and barons the freeman's right to that piece of paper. It was, and is, called a writ of habeas corpus ("you may have the body"). It is issued on the theory that a man is innocent until the state has proved...