Word: magnas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commencement Honors: cum, 39; magna, 14; summa...
When an American goes to his first cricket match you can bet he'll come away thinking he's seen the world's dullest national game. But to all Englishman, things couldn't look more different. Cricket is to him--and has been almost since Magna Carta--the one sport truly beyond comparison. Some men like soccer, and some prefer rugby, while Scotsmen may say field hockey is better than either. But none will disagree about cricket. Its lack of action is its boast, not its shame. Its long matches, which last anywhere from one afternoon to four full days...
...College, 55 men were awarded A.B. degrees, while only one collected a B.S. Eleven men graduated with honors, eight cum laude, two magna cum laude, and one summa cum laude...
Wolff had become something of a legend, like the Widow Nolen, a quarter of a century before him. A magna graduate in Anthropology, he employed 21 assistants in his high-pressure parlor and tutored up to 500 students...
Education: Noble and Greenough School in Mass.; Harvard magna cum laude (Math...