Word: magnas
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...majored in mathematics at Harvard College. After graduating summa cum laude, he began a Ph.D. program in math, specializing in the rarefied subject of algebraic topology. Midway through the doctoral program, he decided that mathematics would be too "lonely" a pursuit and enrolled in Harvard Law School. He finished magna cum laude in 1966, and a year later was selected as law clerk for now retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart...
Tadashi and I had left the bullet train, on which we got to know each other, at Niigata and had taken a limited southwest down along the blue Sea of Japan. At the coastal city of Itoigawa we caught a primitive local that followed the Fossa Magna, that grand cleft dividing interior Japan, up into the Hida range. The train chugged upcountry, passing through hot-spring villages where station names were no longer in Roman letters, passing the jade mines at Kotaki. The railroad paralleled the Himekawa, a river that seemed to flow granite, so stony and gray...
...these, none is more dreaded or reviled than the oral examination, the supposed summation of all that has gone before. Some students change entire plans of study just to avoid them. In the History and Literature department, an all-honors concentration, orals are required for high honors (magna or summa cum laude), no matter what one's academic standing...
...founding impulses of America were not original. They came from the Magna Carta, from the British Bill of Rights, from Locke and Montesquieu, from St. Augustine and Nicholas of Cusa ("Since all men are by nature free, then government rests on the consent of the governed") and a hundred other places. The young, exuberant colonies fused them into revolution...
...anything, Jim Phills is one athlete not likely to compromise Harvard's academic tradition. As a sophomore-standing student, Phills completed his A.B. degree in Psychology magna cum laude last year, and is now completing his Master's degree in Experimental Psychopathology...