Word: retain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Borderline cases between a cum, and a magna will still require an oral, as will the case of any possible summa candidate. "The summa cum laude degree is so unusual," said Buck, "that we have felt it best to retain the oral examination before awarding...
When the Big Red of Cornell sweeps its mighty strokes through the Charles next Saturday, Spike Chace and the Crimson oarsmen are going to have their hands full trying to retain an undefeated title. The Tech men will be in there too, but their eight-length defeat by Harvard on Lake Carnegie proves they will not even count...
...firmly convinced that as long as . . . [the manufacturers] . . . retain in the form of a contract the power to threaten, the power to cancel the automobile dealer out, just that long will these gentlemen force upon their automobile dealers unreasonable quantities of new cars...
Edward M. Rowe '27, Director of Debating, said that "the quality of speaking was exceptionally fine." The original plan of the trials was to reduce the number of contestants to 10, but it was found advisable to retain 16 of the group of 22 contestants...
...were to take any stock in the praise about to be lavished on Roland Young in Clare Kummer's new comedy, "Spring Thaw." The theme of this play is certainly no startling innovation: it is a recitation of the difficulties encountered by a middle-aged man trying to retain possession of both his giddy young wife and his wits. Nor is the dialogue, as written, particularly lustrous. But the play, as played, is certainly one long provocation to laughter...