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McDaniel received three degrees from Harvard: A.B. magna cum laude (1893), A.M. (1894), and Ph.D. (1899). He was born in Cambridge in 1871, the son of a local lawyer, and attended the Cambridge Latin School before coming to Harvard...
Amid the soybean and corn fields of Minnesota, an intellectual businessman (magna cum laude, Amherst '51) is pondering how the U.S. can do well by doing good with its agricultural technology. Thomas Wyman is the 6-ft. 3-in. president of Green Giant Co., and since he took over in 1975, he has aimed at revitalizing that famous but slow growing processor of vegetables; this year its sales will approach $500 million. An outspoken executive, he often rebukes business for high-polluting plants, unsafe products, underfunded pensions, and overseas bribes. Despite such visible failings, he argues, there...
While he sardonically remarks that "everyone is entitled to my opinion," Jarvis emphasizes that his success is the result of sheer stubbornness. The son of a state supreme court judge, Jarvis grew up in the mining town of Magna, Utah. After graduating with straight A's from Utah State University, he talked a local bank into loaning him $15,000 to buy an ailing weekly newspaper, the Magna Times. By the time he was 30, he had parlayed his purchase into eleven papers worth...
Three hundred and seventy-nine seniors will graduate without honors. Of the honors graduates, 352 will receive cum laude degrees, 304 cum laude in general studies, 354 magna, 24 magna with highest honors, and 59 summa. The Economics Department will award the most summas, with a total of six. A number of departments, however, will distribute no summas, including the departments of History, English and American Literature, Philosophy, Music and Sociology...
...graduating class, 190 members will graduate without honors. Summa cum laude degrees will be awarded to 53 graduates, 366 will receive magna cum laude degrees, and 371 will graduate cum laude. Cum laude honors for General Studies will be awarded to 441 seniors...