Word: magnas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tonight's program is of unusual interest to Harvard students in view of the fact that it will be the first performance of Jan LaRue's Concertino. LaRue graduated magna cum laude in music last June and wrote his work as a graduate student at Princeton during the winter. While he was at Harvard, he played first clarinet in the orchestra and was elected president of the Pierian Sodality in his Senior year...
Words of hope came from all parts of the British Empire and from its allies. That great master of language, Winston Churchill, called the Lend-Lease Act "a new Magna Charta, which not only has regard to the rights and laws upon which a healthy and advancing civilization can alone be erected, but also proclaims, by precept and example, the duty of free men and free nations, wherever they may be, to share the responsibility and burden of enforcing them." Concluded Britain's Churchill: "In the name of His Majesty's Government ... I offer to the United States...
Churchill told a wildly-cheering House of Commons that the United States has "written a new Magna Charta" of liberty and human rights and will now throw its "overwhelming industrial and financial strength" into the struggle against Hitlerism...
...divisional examinations at the end of the Junior year, the first covering the general knowledge that the student has gleaned from all the Economics courses he has taken, and the second devoted to testing the student's knowledge on his special field. A candidate for Honors--cum laude, magna cum laude, or summa cum laude--must submit a thesis to the Department in his Senior year...
...sinister visit to Norway of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, it militantly recalled broken Nazi promises to respect Norwegian church and civil laws, resoundingly detailed examples of brutal violence by Quisling's "uniformed hooligans," challenged Nazi banning of preachers' vow of secrecy - "the foundation of the church, the Magna Charta of the conscience." The Bishops expected no satisfactory answer from the State's Councilor; the answer they listened for was that of the Norwegian people...