Word: magnas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time in Harvard's history, the graduates of its distaff campus, Radcliffe, received their diplomas along with the men. And also for the first time, the traditional commencement address in Latin was delivered by a classical scholar in a skirt. Radcliffe's Kirsten Mishkin, 21, a magna cum laude graduate, borrowed a quote from Horace to take this signal honor in stride: "non humilis mulier triumpho" (a woman not humble in triumph...
...Hugh D. Calkins, Calkins is the youngest member of the Harvard Corporation a prominent Cleveland lawyer, former member of the Cleveland school board, trustee of his alma mater Phillips Exeter, and frequently mentioned candidate for higher office in Harvard and the nation. At Harvard Calkins graduated Magna and was president of the CRIMSON. Naturally, he is chief marshal of the 25th reunion. Calkins has lots of friends. Bob Storer recalls. "From my point of view he was a little liberal-not really in with the Brahmins, even though he did go to Exeter...
Kathy Boudin was destined to be a crusader. Her father Leonard is a prominent lawyer for leftist causes. She was a magna cum laude graduate of Bryn Mawr. Her mother recalls: "Kathy did everything cum laude." Kathy's parents have refused to cooperate with police in their search for her, and her mother says only: "We know she is safe...
...Renaissance. Around that time, a sweet wind of humanism swept across the dark face of Europe, bringing with it a new interest in Latin classics and Greek philosophy, a delight in racy troubadour songs and epic verse, and a keener awareness of the dignity of man. The Magna Carta was signed, and the great Gothic cathedrals of Chartres, Notre Dame and Reims were begun...
Pusey is the first President of the University to be born west of the Mississippi. A native of Council Bluffs, Iowa, he studied English and Comparative Literature at Harvard under the late Irving Babbitt, graduating magna in 1928. He received his A.M. from Harvard in 1932 and his Ph.D...