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However, the professors approved and honored Kennedy--Magna Cum Laude. Later, after some revision, the thesis, entitled Why England Slept, became an overnight best seller...
...daily editor in the U.S. He is 26, an age at which many journalists are still writing obits or patrolling the police beat. Editor Evans has never written an obituary or chased an ambulance. Gifted and earnest, Stan Evans is a product of Yale ('55, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude). In college he fell in with a group of students that called itself "The Inter-Collegiate Society of Individualists." In this company Evans studied the record of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, decided that McCarthy "was in the main correct...
...More (52%) graduated from Harvard with honors than without. The main upsurge was in magna cum laude degrees (179) and cum laudes (300), which were won by 48% of the graduating class...
...happily than the rest at the words of Noel Gregson Davis, 19. She was his sister Cecile, 21. Together they had made a remarkable record. Greg had not only been chosen one of Harvard's two student commencement orators, the first Negro so honored, but was also graduating magna cum laude, while Cecile (cum laude) was elected Radcliffe class president and senior-class marshal...
King John, signer (under duress) of Magna Carta, bathed once every three weeks. Queen Elizabeth, born 317 years after his death, scrubbed herself only once a month, "whether she needed it or no." Thus it may be seen that the history of the human race's sanitary habits is by no means an unchecked upward gush. British Expert Wright-an architect, not a plumber-charts the flow with scholarship, wit, and handsome illustrations ; the resulting volume is better bathtub reading than most recent novels...