Word: magnas
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...seniors will receive their degrees summa cum laude, in contrast to only one three years ago. Together with magna and cum laude degrees, the number of seniors receiving their diplomas with honors will approximate the 48 percent of last year...
With proper medieval pomp and ceremony, the University of Bologna's top academicians and some important guests, e.g., U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce, Italy's Education Minister Giuseppe Ermini, gathered in the high-ceilinged Aula Magna last week to inaugurate a new addition to one of Europe's oldest universities: the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, first U.S. graduate school to be established on the Continent.* Said Ambassador Luce: "America is not here to add something to Bologna's centuries-old tradition . . . but to gain strength from...
...COURTS The history of the English constitution is largely one of struggle toward an independent, qualified judiciary (in the Magna Carta, King John covenanted that "we will appoint as justices . . . only such as know the law of the realm and mean to observe it well"). The men who shaped the governments of the U.S. and its states were acutely conscious of the importance of a judiciary free to act without fear or favor toward the executive and legislative branches. In the post-revolutionary period nearly all judges-state as well as federal-were named by appointment and got life tenure...
Lubell refused to answer questions about his own and his brother's success in finding jobs since graduation. Both Lubells received their law degrees magna cum laude...
...that only a third of the students could give a satisfactory identification of the Reformation and Voltaire; only half knew much about Plato; and only four could properly identify Bismarck. Out of the 15, ten had never even heard of the Medicis, and seven knew nothing whatever about the Magna Carta...