Word: magnas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dean received his A.B. degree magna cum laude from Stanford in 1931, and four years later graduated from Harvard Medical School cum laude. He held a research fellowship in surgery while interning at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and was appointed a Junior Fellow of Harvard's Society of Fellows...
...same way, the constant need to keep his dikes repaired against the attacks of the sea, and to fend off his many greedy enemies with unified effort, gave the Fleming a sense of community responsibility not yet shared by other Europeans. A hundred years before the signing of the Magna Carta in a tent on a British meadow, the burghers of Saint-Omer forced their feudal overlords to recognize the rights and privileges of individual citizens in that tiny Flemish town. Many other such charters were granted in Flanders during the Middle Ages and kept secure in strong boxes...
...Commencement exercises 990 seniors from the College will receive Bachelor of Arts Degrees, with 259 graduating cum laude, 123 magna cup laude, 14 magna cum laude with highest honors, and 27 with the highest honor that the College can award, a summa cum laude diploma...
...numbered approximately 1,500, or nearly 40 percent of the whole Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduate body. Each spring she assigns all sophomores in these fields to appropriate tutors; she prepares the records of more than 200 honors candidates in the departments each year, to determine whether they will graduate summa, magna, cum, or sine; she makes sure that somebody reads and marks all the bluebooks that are turned in from general examinations in the fields; and she constantly answers such questions as "Who is my tutor?", "Do I have to take this course next year?", "Who is teaching Gov. 155 next...
Besides supervising the office's employees in these routine tasks, Miss Jones personally carries out a job that is as valuable to the University, and difficult to execute, as it is unique and unpublicized. In the early part of each spring she carefully guesses what rank of honors-summa, magna, or cum-each one of that year's honors candidates will retain when he graduates...