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  2. Latin honors - Wikipedia

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    Graduates from Singapore Management University have to achieve GPAs of 3.4, 3.6 and 3.8 out of 4.0 respectively and without any exceptions to qualify for the Latin honors. It is also used by Yale-NUS College, with the top 5% of a graduating class receiving summa cum laude, the next 10% magna cum laude, and the next 20% cum laude. There are no ...

  3. List of university and college mottos - Wikipedia

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    Spanish The knowledge of my children will be my greatness National Autonomous University of Mexico: Por mi raza hablará el espíritu: Spanish For my people the Spirit will speak National Polytechnic Institute: La técnica al servicio de la patria: Spanish The technique to the service of the fatherland Universidad Veracruzana

  4. Alumni - Wikipedia

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    The word comes from Latin, meaning nurslings, pupils or foster children, derived from alere "to nourish". [1] The term is not synonymous with "graduates": people can be alumni without graduating, e.g. Burt Reynolds was an alumnus of Florida State University but did not graduate. The term is sometimes used to refer to former employees, former ...

  5. List of colloquial names for universities and colleges in the ...

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    Because of the large number of universities and colleges in the United States, and some cases because of their lengthy formal names, it is common to abbreviate their names in everyday usage. The type of institution, such as "University" or "College," may be dropped, or some component of it abbreviated, such as "Tech" in place of "Institute of ...

  6. Universidad de las Américas Puebla - Wikipedia

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    The CAIL, Language Learning and Research Complex (Conjunto para el Aprendizaje e Investigación en Lenguas) was finished in 2005. The Real Madrid Soccer school was established. In 2006, 11 new bachelor's degrees and 9 master's degree programs opened, including the innovative programs at the undergraduate level in Nanotechnology and Molecular ...

  7. Alma mater - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] [3] The term is related to alumnus, literally meaning 'nursling', which describes a school graduate. [4] In its earliest usage, alma mater was an honorific title for various mother goddesses, especially Ceres or Cybele. [5] Later, in Catholicism, it became a title for Mary, mother of Jesus. By the early 17th century, the nursing mother ...

  8. Most common words in Spanish - Wikipedia

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    The RAE is Spain's official institution for documenting, planning, and standardising the Spanish language. A word form is any of the grammatical variations of a word. The second table is a list of 100 most common lemmas found in a text corpus compiled by Mark Davies and other language researchers at Brigham Young University in the

  9. University of Guadalajara - Wikipedia

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    This occurred because the Company of Jesus managed the two most important colleges in the city: the Santo Tomas College and the San Juan Bautista College. Moreover, on December 12, 1771, arrived to Guadalajara the new bishop to Nueva Galicia , Friar Antonio Alcalde y Barriga, who significantly supported the foundation of the university.