Word: magnas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City and the District of Columbia, no Negro has ever before sat on the Federal bench. No mere political gesture to colored constituents was this appointment, however, for William Hastie, Knoxville born, is rated one of the ablest Negro lawyers in the U. S. He was graduated from Amherst magna cum laude, went to Harvard Law School and became one of Felix Frankfurter's "Hot Dog Boys." He and his .cousin Charles H. Houston are the only two Negroes ever to have served on the editorial board of the Harvard Law Review. He has taught law in Howard (Negro...
...Wolff, Harvard '29, magna cum laud in anthropology, set up his school in Beck Hall in 1930, but soon had to move to bigger quarters. Large and generally unshaven, he shouts his lectures, throws erassers at sleepy students tells stories about Peter his pet champanzee and despite official disapproval--gets most of Harvard's patronage...
Biggest and reputedly best of Harvard's bureaus is run by Harold ("Hal") Wolff. Tutor Wolff, who graduated magna cum lande in anthropology in 1929, launched the practice of advertising in the Harvard Crimson his willingness to be of assistance in preparing for approaching examinations. He rents a floor in a dingy building directly across from the freshman dormitories, hires 21 assistants, tutors about 500 students a year. Rates are $4 an hour for private work, $2.50 for class reviews. Tutor Wolff's proudest boasts are that he has never run afoul of University Hall, that...
Meltzner, one of the most brilliant students in the Law School in recent years, was graduated magna cum laude last June, and was engaged in graduate work at the time of his death...
...days after the Cavaliers received their 65-0 defeat at the hands of Harvard the undergraduate paper at the University of Virginia brought out the Magna Carta of Professional Football reprinted else-where on this page. Coming immediately after Virginia's humiliation by a team whose foremost virtue has always been its emphasis upon amateurism, the editorial appears to be totally lacking in sincerity...