Word: magnas
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Around five percent of the members of the graduating class who have been recommended for highest honors in their concentrations will receive summa cum laude degrees, the same cap from previous years. Students whose concentrations recommend them for high honors may be awarded magna cum laude degrees, bringing the total number of summa and magna degrees to no more than 20 percent...
...this year fewer English concentrators chose to write theses—a departmental requirement for high honors—because they had a lower chance of graduating magna than in previous years, New wrote in an e-mail...
...Students who might have opted to do a thesis to ensure magna eligibility did not opt to do theses this year but rather to take additional advanced courses. We saw roughly 10 more students doing non-thesis honors this year than we did last year,” New wrote...
...time you spend here will be among the most hallowed in your lives,” said Davis, who graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude in 1990 and cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1993. “You are surrounded by the most intelligent and most thoughtful people, and I urge you to learn from the people you sit next...
...undergraduate at Harvard, he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in social studies. He received a PhD in sociology from Harvard...