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...Magna Carta...
After graduating magna cum laude from the City College of New York in 1940, Sacks received his LL.B. magna cum laude from Harvard in 1948. He was law clerk to Judge Augustus N. Hand of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1948-49, and to Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter the following year...
...nudged Yale's prestige ahead to the point of challenging Harvard's. Like Brewster, Bok has rugged good looks and a legal background, is youthful and a politically deft administrator. Though never a Harvard undergraduate like all previous presidents (he was an undergraduate at Stanford), he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law and has been on the faculty since 1958. He is respected within his specialty of labor law and is experienced as a strike negotiator, but he is boyish enough in outlook to have attempted to organize a faculty basketball team. Last year he co-authored...
...received his LL.B. degree, magna cum laude, from the Law School in 1954 where he was the editor of the prestigious Harvard Law Review...
...dropping of the label "Honors' and the abolition of the three Honors distinctions, cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa cum laude. Although grades (especially when viewed in personal rather than competitive terms) can provide an incentive for academic work, Honors distinctions are determined at the end of an undergraduate career and are little more than trophies awarded for public display. In our opinion, high quality work in the senior year that is motivated by the chance to secure such a trophy is not to be prized. If a student wants to demonstrate his scholarly ability to his future assessors...