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...during the last days of World War II. Ashamed that Washington's refusal to join the League of Nations after World War I had doomed that earlier bid for collective security, American leaders lavished praise on the new global body. The U.N. Charter "can be a greater Magna Carta," intoned John Foster Dulles, a delegate to the San Francisco conference...
...admissions and financial aids for 13 years. In his new post, Jewett will oversee all non-academic programs and activities for the College's 6500 undergraduates. He will also become chairman of the Administrative Board, the Committee on College Life and the Committee on House Life. Jewett graduated magna cum laudeand Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College and received his MBA from Harvard Business School...
Later that year, not to let his new wealth go to waste, he bought the Magna Casta for $1.5 million. The real one, Signed by Bad King John in 1215. He donated the document, which had been held all those years by an aristocratic English family, to the National Archives in Washington...
...magna cum laude Government concentrator who calls himself a liberal socialist, Huang Yasheng wrote his thesis on agrarian reforms in rural China. Its conclusions took a surprisingly critical view of the communist regime: Huang found that economic changes did not bring about the social progress that the government had sought...
...receive College-wide honors under the new regulations, a student will have to attain a minimum overall GPA in addition to meeting separate departmental requirements. The College-wide standards agreed upon are an 11.0 GPA for cum laude in General Studies, 10.5 for cum laude, and 12.0 for magna cum laude. Requirements for summa cum laude are subject to annual adjustment by the Faculty...