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...expect the really concrete things will come out of Harvard's Office of Instructional Research since it now collects the same information on women as on men," she explained. "We have stopped asking questions just about Radcliffe students: it doesn't help us to know how many women graduated magna or summa unless we know how many men did the same...
...seems that America is experiencing the divine right of kings under its President. Is a new Magna Carta needed...
Danny was photography co-chairman in the fall of 1971 and he graduated magna cum laude in Government the following spring. In 1971, he helped found Cambridge Survey Research, Inc. with John Gorman, a fellow member of Dunster House. For the 1972 Presidential campaign, Porter and Gorman teamed up with Pat Caddell and became the most influential issues consultants in the McGovern campaign...
...most departments, a late thesis means a penalty of one full distinction. A Social Studies thesis--more than a month overdue--which received a summa minus was dropped down to a magna plus. Few undergraduates complain about penalties for extremely late theses, although there is always annual speculation about what might happen if a student misses his 5 p.m. deadline by 12 minutes...
...people, if any, have charged that the system contains any political bias. Radicals like Herbert I. Gintis say that radical theses receive high honors. But he explained that the system is biased toward certain forms of academic discipline. An accepted mode of academic work usually receives some form of magna, while an experimental thesis runs the risk of offending its reader...