Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...received by him from President Eliot, Dr. Scott, Professors Cilley, Wentworth, and Tufts of Exeter, Mr. Kittredge and Mr. Sawin of Harvard, Dr. Andrew P. Peabody, George S. Hale. He announced that any members of the classes of '85 and '86 of Exeter might at any time receive his diploma by sending his permanent address to Professor Tufts at Exeter. It was also announced that the Pean for 1889 would be a memorial Pean of unusual interest to graduates of the academy, and that it would be on sale during the summer at Sever's. The following officers we elected...
...times, men who barely scraped through college got the same diploma as the real students. This was the fiction General Walker doubtless had in mind. Colleges and similar institutions have now raised their standard so that a diploma means something...
...speaking of Columbia's recent action in regard to the admission of women, Harpers Weekly says: The young Doctor and Bachelor, as she stood before the president and faculty and trustees and received her diploma, was a harbinger of advancing civilization, and of the constant enlightenment which makes this age brighter than its predecessors. Her presence on that academic stage meant that every opportunity of generous development shall be opened to women, and it showed that if Columbia College, cautious, wise, and much deliberating, does not refuse her honors to trained and proved scholarship and intellectual attainment merely because they...
...Greek Philological Syllogos of Constantinople has recently conferred its diploma of honorary membership upon President Eliot of Harvard University, Professor Fernald of Williams College; Professor Grosvenor of Robert College, Constantinople; Professor North of Hamilton College, New York; ex-President Porter of Yale College, Professor Tyler of Amherst College, and President Welling of Columbia University, D. C. - Boston Daily Advertiser...
...that a knowledge of spherical trigonometry and differential calculus is required. But it is not the mathematical technicalities which we want, but such a general knowledge of the science as every high school graduate, who is not fitting for college, is obliged to have before he can get his diploma. Woeful ignorance of the commonest branches of learning has ever been a reproach to college students. The narrow line of studies which they must pursue in order to secure admission to college is the cause of it. Latin, Greek, and Mathematics take up all of their time; the rudiments...