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Mansfield, who received one of the Government Department's two summas in 1953, said yesterday that the low number of magna and cum laude degrees in Government this year is the result of a new, tougher policy...
...Faculty Council yesterday adopted an amendment to the honors regulations passed in February by the Faculty that in effect calls for a return to the old standards for cum laude and magna degrees, except with a higher minimum grade level...
...registrar has interpreted the standards that are in effect until July, 1977, to mean that candidates for magna must have C's or above in two-thirds of their letter-graded non-concentration courses. Candidates for cum laude degrees need C-'s or above in the same number of non-concentration courses...
...applied to the transcripts of the Class of 1975, Pipkin said, the new proposal would change the number of magna and cum laude degrees that were actually awarded "only very slightly...
...Committee on Honors yesterday asked the Faculty Council to consider setting a fixed number of honors grades outside a student's field of concentration as a prerequisite for magna cum laude and cum laude degrees...