Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...institutions. Within a few years the Harvard Law School has striven with great success to raise the standard of professional education. But to do this effectively the force of teachers must be increased, while the income is diminished by strict examinations. The school now requires for admission, a college diploma as evidence of general mental discipline, or an examination; a three years course of study; a thorough examination to pass from year to year, and an equally stringent examination for the degree. This is the way to make a learned profession really learned; and as lawyers are often regarded...
...believe the plan, recently introduced at the University of Michigan, at Bowdoin, and at some other colleges, of admitting students upon the presentation of a diploma from any duly approved preparatory school, has been found to be very successful and satisfactory in its workings. It manifestly does away with many of the terrors and well known disadvantages of the ordinary entrance examination; and any means of reforming the evils of the present examination system is to be welcomed. It is to be hoped that Harvard will soon see her way to adoption, wholly or in part, of this or some...
...work of students, he thought art should play a great part in it, and he did not see why an undergraduate should not receive a diploma for painting a beautiful picture, or modelling a fine piece of sculpture as well as for gaining a knowledge of that dreadful record of crime known as history...
Here Nature assuredly won a diploma...