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...Arkansas boy who graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor of science degree from his home state's tiny Henderson-Brown College, McConnell went on to West Point and flying school, rose from shavetail to colonel in ten years. During World War II, he was assigned to the Southeast Asia Air Command under Admiral Louis Mountbatten, became Chief of Staff of the Air Force Training Command in the China-Burma-India theater, after the war was senior U.S. air adviser to the Nationalist Chinese government...
...what makes our job fun is deciding which PRL's to believe. For instance the boy in the class of 1964 with the lowest PRL graduated magna cum laude. We didn't believe...
...Does official Harvard think that everybody should write a thesis? If so, why have the CLGS at all? If not, if I am right in my belief that writing a thesis is a work only for someone with an unusually deep commitment to his major, why not have a Magna in General Studies, Jim Boyk...
Portlist has lost none of the intellectual zest that brought him a magna in history and literature at Harvard in 1954. He wrote his thesis on Henry David Thoreau's part in Brook Farm, the experimental community begun by George Ripley in 1841. Portlist is still an amateur student of Transcendentalism, but it was his interest in politics that moved him to organize the Massachusetts Citizens for the Great Society...
...political parties in 16 of Latin America's 20 countries-all except Honduras, Paraguay, Haiti and Cuba. Like their powerful European counterparts in Italy and Germany, the Latin American parties base their philosophy on the 73-year-old Rerum Novarum encyclical of Pope Leo XIII-the so-called "Magna Carta of Labor," which advocates labor unions and worker profit-sharing...