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Football fame, scorned as it was by intellectuals, was the key that unlocked the sources of money that now pay for Notre Dame's increasing academic quality. The more scholarly graduates nowadays like to recall that Coach Rockne was also a magna cum laude graduate ('15), a brilliant chemistry student who worked with Father Julius Nieuwland, discoverer of the base for synthetic rubber. In 1952, Notre Dame honored Nieuwland with a first-rate science building that bears his name and the inscription. "All Things God Hath Made Are Good and Each of Them Serves Its Turn...
Vorenberg received the A.B. degree magna cum laude in 1948 and the LL.B. degree magna cum laude in 1951 from Harvard. As a law student, he was president of the Harvard Law Review...
James Vorenberg '48, Boston Lawyer, will become Professor of Law effective July 1, Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Law School, announced recently. Vorenberg received his A.B. degree magna cum laude, and took his L.L.B. magna cum laude in 1961 from Harvard. He was president of the Law Review...
...follows, or is approaching a "top-one percent" policy--the admission of only students who would stand, academically, in the upper one per cent of the country's students. "Would the College be a wonderfully stimulating and rewarding place," Bender asked, when every entering student was a potential magna or summa...
...done on airplane flights, during which officials of one Deutsche Bank branch after another accompany him in relays like Pony Express riders, a new team coming aboard with its problems at each stop. But Abs has also found time to spearhead an increasingly potent campaign for an international "Magna Carta" that would discourage governments from arbitrarily expropriating or discriminating against foreign capital...