Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...diplomas will be given out in Sanders Theatre on Commencement Day, as heretofore. They will be distributed after the exercises under the direction of the different deans of the various faculties and schools, in places of which due notice will be posted. This change has been made necessary by the great amount of time consumed in the distribution of the increasing number of diplomas, and by the delay in distributing diplomas not given out at the exercises. This year the diplomas will be printed from a new plate, the old one having been worn out. In the new plate there...
...Corporation reconsidered their recent vote concerning the form of degree for three-year men. They have now decided that a student who satisfied the requirements for the A.B. in three years should obtain the regular diploma at the end of the third year, but that he might choose whether, in the Quinquennial Catalogue, his name should be entered under the year of his graduation, or under the following year, his choice to be field in writing with the Recorder not less than two weeks before the degree is to be conferred. All students who expect to obtain the degree...
...which a man may take his degree in three years "as of" his own class, is to encourage graduation in three years. But the extent of the encouragement afforded thereby is thus far not fully understood. Just what does the "as of" mean? Technically, it means that the diploma is awarded one year, and dated the next--that is, for instance, that a man so receiving his diploma in 1903 would have on it the date...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences, that hereafter a student completing the work required for the degree of A. B. in three years may, on his own request, obtain the degree "as of" the class graduating four years from the time of his entering College. In other words, the diploma of such a student will identify him with the class with which he considers himself socially connected, but may be obtained at the end of the third year...
...photographs and charts showing the development and membership of the business since its founding in 1882, has recently received a medal of bronze. These commemorative bronze medals are presented uniformly to all exhibitors who were awarded gold, silver or bronze medals at the Exposition, and a diploma specifying the grade of the award is also presented...