Word: magnas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goats, eight hens-had been previously boarded out to neighboring farmers. Lady Garbett and her daughter repaired to a nearby hotel with three dogs, twelve cats and three geese. "I call it legalized robbery," wailed Lady Garbett, and retired to bed with a headache. "Grossly immoral and against the Magna Carta," snapped Susan. "Is your property yours, or not?" She did not talk of getting a lawyer. There was nothing illegal about it. It was the law of the land...
That is one of the conclusions of a survey report now being circulated among selected members of the Faculty and graduate students in economics by Seymour E. Harris '20, professor of Economics. The report summarizes the answers to a questionnaire filled out by 211 high magna or summa graduates in Harris' field of economics, and represents an attempt to find out what happens to "our best undergraduates...
...Oklahoma! (Magna...
Honors undoubtedly represent to the layman academic achievement of any kind, but in scholarly circles they have always indicated a particular excellence--in the writing of a thesis. The very terms-- summa, magna, and cum laude, --stem from awards given in the Middle Ages for the reading of theses or discourses. At present, however, a number of Harvard graduates get honors degrees without writing theses, through the program of Cum Laude in General Studies. While CLGS is often used to allow people with low marks as lowerclassmen to write theses, it also allows people with high marks to avoid this...
Anderson graduated magna cum laude from here in 1939. In 1954, his "Tea and Sympathy" won the New York Critics Award. He also wrote "All Summer Long" in the same year...