Word: magnas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another study device, born just this January, involves inscribing sugar packets with Chinese restaurant-style fortunes. I pulled "Kiss the Magna Goodbye" the other day and was reminded of a September 1981 essay by Timothy Foote '49. Foote turned a brief visit to the Yard into an article for Esquire entitled "The Trouble With Harvard" The essay mournfully related his "nagging sense that many of the students should have gone someplace else...
Finley developed his all-consuming interest in literature and languages of the ancient Greek world at Exeter and in his senior year at Harvard won the Bowdoin Prize for an essay on "Euripides and Shaw Compared." A magna cum laude graduate. Finley continued his studies in Greece. Germany and France, where he read the Classics at the Sorbonne. Returning to Harvard, Finley received his Ph.D. in 1933 with a 250-page dissertation written entirely in Latin. He also began teaching that year...
However, Sidney Verba '53, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education and CUE chairman, postponed action on another motion that would require the registrar to drop a magna or cum laude candidate's two lowest half-course grades when calculating grade point averages. The "drop" rule would not apply to summa candidates...
...members spent over an hour debating whether the drop rule would merely complicate the present system, offer new opportunities for students to "manipulate" the system, or allow students to graduate magna or cum laude even after receiving...
...college professors had suffered from grade inflation as severely as you, I'd have graduated magna cum laude...