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However, Sidney Verba '53, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education and CUE chairman, postponed action on another motion that would require the registrar to drop a magna or cum laude candidate's two lowest half-course grades when calculating grade point averages. The "drop" rule would not apply to summa candidates...
...college professors had suffered from grade inflation as severely as you, I'd have graduated magna cum laude...
...arts to an august quintet: Actor Cary Grant, 77, Actress Helen Hayes, 81, Jazzman Count Basie, 75, Choreographer Jerome Bobbins, 63, and Pianist Rudolf Serkin, 78. The gala will be broadcast by CBS on Dec. 26. Said a pleased Hayes, "Us old-timers were like kids who were graduating magna cum laude-we were really sailing above the earth...
...addition to rowing, Stevens was a Radcliffe summer intern and a member of the Harvard Model United Nations in 1978. She was also a member of the Dunster House Drama Society, where she appeared in "Equus" and was a publicity assistant for "Ah Wilderness" last year. She was graduated magna cum laude in English and American Literature and Language...
...spent an unremarkable childhood--piano lessons and private school. After graduating from Horace Mann high school, he arrived at Harvard simultaneously with World War II. "I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and English," Lehrer says, "but Math had the fewest requirements so I went with it." After graduating magna cum laude in 1946, he continued studying mathematics in Harvard graduate school. "I knew I wanted to teach and Math was my field, so I studied Math," he says...