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Carnochan, a graduate of St. Paul's, received a magna cum laude degree here. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He is presently studying at New College, Oxford. Rouner went to Choate. While an undergraduate here, he rowed on the varsity heavyweight crew. He has just finished his first season as coach of all Crimson 155-pound crews...
Obviously, it would be unfair if advanced-course grades were omitted from the record of a student who suddenly catches fire in his senior year and does much better than he had done in previous courses taken to fulfill honors requirements. And a candidate for the summa or magna should be expected to master anything he does, regardless of difficulty. But the cum laude degree, implying reasonable competence, but by no means brilliance, is a different matter. Here, a candidate should not lose honors if he maintains a B average through all his required courses and then makes...
...past, all grades should be counted towards the summa and magna degrees, and also in cases where improvement comes with the interest stimulated by more difficult work. But for cum laude, the student should be forced to include only those courses specifically taken to fulfill honors concentration requirements. For it is just this student who needs a little encouragement and a reduction of pressure before he will tax his abilities by competing with graduate students...
...plays them on a guitar for his family (wife Florence, a onetime radio actress who still holds a union card, children Lex, 14, and Anna Barbara. 13). Born and raised in South Dakota-his mother was once the state's Mother of the Year-Larson made his A.B. magna cum laude in South Dakota's Augustana College, moved on to South Dakota University's law school, there won a Rhodes scholarship. At Oxford, he took first-class honors in jurisprudence, later got his M.A. At the Union Society, Oxford's top debating forum, he made treasurer...
...nuper modestum morum bonorum praesidium, nunc vividum alacris motus gymnasium! Cavete igitur vos decani decanulique--"non intret Cato theatrum meum"--nec non vos, o septum novi homines qui ad spinosam Lapparum tutelam elevati estis. Quae enim saga Radcliffiensis, quis magus Harvardianus pollenti pectore nunc praesentire potest quam mira et magna Plautus et Bacchus et fervidus ille puer et solutis Gratiae zonis in campo et area nostria iamiam effecturi sint? Nam hac in fabula Plautina est quidam filius qui scortillum venustum perdite amat; est fili pater, decrepitus senex, qui una cum filio non modo potat sed etiam amicam ductat atque clam...