Word: magnas
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...department's newest track allows concentrators to earn cumlaude status--though not magna or summa degrees--for getting honors-level grades in all the required courses and taking an extra seminar or small group course taught by a departmental faculty member in lieu of writing a thesis...
...attention was caught by the article concerning what to do about regulating cums, magna cums and summa cum laude honors (Worries About Summa Integrity Drive Downsizing Reform," Scrutiny, June 5, 1997). It seems there is an inordinate profusion of them at Harvard. Evidently, it is becoming somewhat of an embarrassment to the University. May I offer a suggestion which might help to resolve this issue...
...regulate cums and magna cums to undergraduates, leaving summa cums to graduate students only. That way you might increase your graduate enrollments and keep the brightest in the fold. What do you think? --Rhoda M. Crowell '42 Tilton...
...Those people who could easily attain magna or summa need to be recognized for high level achievements," Wang says. "Cum is the minimum they should receive...
Wang also notes that very few ambitious thesis writers want to take the non-thesis writing track, because there is no possibility of magna or summa...