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...Cliffies are at Harvard. The University of Pennsylvania Law School ranked second with 20 Harvard '66 students and one Cliffie. Eighty-four per cent of the Harvard graduates who applied to law school were admitted to at least one, and acceptances were almost twice as frequent for magna graduates as for non-honors...
...almost predict what you will be doing after graduation from your degree of honors. At Radcliffe, all of last year's summa and magna highest graduates are in grad school, as well as 60 per cent of the magnas, 42 per cent of the cums, and only 33 per cent of the non-honors graduates. At Harvard, 92 per cent of the summas go to grad school, along with 87 per cent of the magnas, 82 per cent of the C.L.G.S. graduates, 81 per cent of the cums, and 52 per cent of the non-honors...
Gathered for the festive occasion, which reminded almost no one of the signing of the Magna Carta, were representatives of Students for a Democratic Society, Young Democrats, Young Republicans and the Harvard Policy Committee. Frank had invited them all to the public ceremony so that everyone would know the coveted list was honestly compiled...
...would like to think that the atrocities Mr. Chester cited ("Men with under 9. averages had been elected, while those close to 11. had been rejected; cum laude candidates had been elected over magna candidates...") all occurred because the electors of PBK refused to couch the administration of honor in Mr. Chester's Procrustean bad. Having been present at the June elections in 1963, '64, and '65, I can vouch that the great majority of these apparent reversals favored a heterogeneity of interests, favored signs of intellectual flare and excitement, over that massive but dull competence which gets...
...through, Brando handicaps himself with a fiercely concentrated acting style more suitable for great occasions. He seems determined to play not just a man but a whole concept of humanity, and Saxon's brazen theft of the hoss soon looms as a cause equal in significance to the Magna Carta or the Declaration of Human Rights. Though Saxon ropes Brando, drags him through a stream, and presses his forearm onto a scorpion during an Indian wrestling match, Brando survives to get away with the girl, get on his horse and get off a well-aimed parting shot...