Word: magnas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grew up there, my father (Carl J., who helped create the West German constitution) was a professor of government there, and the life of the faculty was our neighborhood life. I wasn't that impressed. Anyway, I almost flunked out my freshman year." Friedrich quickly recovered, though, and graduated magna cum laude...
Adam Cohen, current president of the Harvard Law Review and a 1984 magna cum laude at Harvard, came because "there's so much here." Cohen comments, however, that the students tend to be a "very careerist group with a bloodthirsty desire to get ahead." Bok agrees, not happily. He reports that the stated goals on the applications of incoming freshmen were "money first, followed by power and then making a reputation." Once new students are safely aboard, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett notes that they acquire a certain "smugness" and "arrogance" -- as witness a cheer that goes...
Tough stuff, but not uncommon at Harvard, where William Hawkins, '76 and now head of his own California computer-software firm, recalls battling for two years for permission to design a specialized computer-science major for himself alone -- with which he earned magna cum laude. "Harvard was a real sink-or-swim environment," he says. "I learned to be totally self-reliant. The university's idea of personal counseling was, 'What can we do to make you study...
...classroom, where Kashani often appears in a three piece suit and sports a black leather attache case, he is a whirlwind, majoring in economics and chemistry. He took Chem 20 in his freshman year, five courses a semester from then on, and wrote a magna plus thesis on the chemical industry of Saudi Arabia...
Since freshman year Ronis estimates that he,like Moore, has never spent a moment at Harvardwithout being in at least one play. This term, forinstance, he directed or acted in six shows whilewriting a magna thesis on the dramatic monolguesof Robert Browning. With Ronis, as with Moore,quality has never suffered due to quantity: theRichard the Second and the Romeo andJuliet he directed this year earned gushingpraise...