Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...diploma is concerned the only difference between the "War Degree" and the regular A.B. lies in the addition after the candidate's name of the words "qui studiis relictis pro patriae liberate militavit." Since it is based on only three-fourths of the work required for a regular A.B. this new degree is intended for those who, having served in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States or an allied country have missed a portion of their courses...
...awarded a "War Degree" and still be eligible to continue his course for a regular A.B. or S.B., providing that he give up his "War Degree" before receiving the regular diploma...
...university as an institution of higher learning and efficient because it promises to turn out officers possessing a broad foundation of general knowledge and with the practical training which modern warfare demands. The course will make no appeal to the student who seeks the easiest way to a college diploma. At best, the process of becoming an Army officer is serious business. Only by the hardest kind of work can a man become an officer and a college graduate at one and the same time. Boston Transcript...
...only too sad a fact to be denied that a college diploma and law school certificate will not insure the legal profession against crooks. Hence the raising of educational standards would not dispell the universal suspicion of the profession. But there is one thing that will always appeal to the man who does not stop to reason. Offer to give him something for nothing and you will at once gain his confidence. It is in this way that free legal aid is going to serve the double purpose of purging the profession of its taint, and at the same time...
...university degree. That degree certifies that one has done a certain amount of work according to the standards set by the university. That an undergraduate did a noble thing in joining the colors does not alter the fact that he did not complete the requirements for a diploma...