Word: magnas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obviously, it would be unfair if advanced-course grades were omitted from the record of a student who suddenly catches fire in his senior year and does much better than he had done in previous courses taken to fulfill honors requirements. And a candidate for the summa or magna should be expected to master anything he does, regardless of difficulty. But the cum laude degree, implying reasonable competence, but by no means brilliance, is a different matter. Here, a candidate should not lose honors if he maintains a B average through all his required courses and then makes...
...plays them on a guitar for his family (wife Florence, a onetime radio actress who still holds a union card, children Lex, 14, and Anna Barbara. 13). Born and raised in South Dakota-his mother was once the state's Mother of the Year-Larson made his A.B. magna cum laude in South Dakota's Augustana College, moved on to South Dakota University's law school, there won a Rhodes scholarship. At Oxford, he took first-class honors in jurisprudence, later got his M.A. At the Union Society, Oxford's top debating forum, he made treasurer...
...nuper modestum morum bonorum praesidium, nunc vividum alacris motus gymnasium! Cavete igitur vos decani decanulique--"non intret Cato theatrum meum"--nec non vos, o septum novi homines qui ad spinosam Lapparum tutelam elevati estis. Quae enim saga Radcliffiensis, quis magus Harvardianus pollenti pectore nunc praesentire potest quam mira et magna Plautus et Bacchus et fervidus ille puer et solutis Gratiae zonis in campo et area nostria iamiam effecturi sint? Nam hac in fabula Plautina est quidam filius qui scortillum venustum perdite amat; est fili pater, decrepitus senex, qui una cum filio non modo potat sed etiam amicam ductat atque clam...
...corner of a lumberyard and built a prototype. Frank took it to Chicago and showed it to Montgomery Ward officials, who astonished the three partners by ordering 250 for the 1947 Christmas season. Ward soon upped the order to 1,000, then 2,000. The partners incorporated as Magna Engineering Corp. (after Magna, Utah, home town of the brothers' parents). In 1948, its first full year, Magna sold $3,000,000 worth of Shopsmiths. Last year it grossed nearly...
...Magna, now headquartered in a new, brick-and-glass building in Menlo Park, Calif., is still owned and operated by the three founders. While President Bob Chambers takes care of sales and advertising and Treasurer Frank Chambers looks after purchasing, Vice President Goldschmidt concentrates on inventing. Says he: Some new Magna products "will be just as revolutionary in their way as the Shopsmith...