Re: And occasionally it's brains rushing to the head

wollman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Garrett Wollman) writes:

Sam Nelson <sam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Does Oxford discriminate 2.1 from 2.2 now? It used not to,

Sir HUMPHREY: Surely a second at Oxford _counts_ as an upper second!
-- Jonathan Lynn & Antony Jay

U.S. universities generally give "latin honors": "cum laude", "magna
cum laude", and "summa cum laude". Except MIT, which does not rank
its students.

My alma mater, not being a very Latin kind of place -- even the motto is
in English -- has "honors", "high honors", and "highest honors".

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