Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...shows that only one uneducated child in one hundred and fifty thousand is able to accomplish anything that entitles him to honorable mention in the progress of his state; that children with common-school education win out four times as often; that a high school diploma gives them eighty-seven times as much chance--while a college education makes them eight hundred times as likely to succeed. But the fact that such incidents as the above do still happen should be sufficient to make us more guarded against assuming any over-confidence. Success is by no means guaranteed by education...
...addressed by President Lowell (one of the first to favor American intervention in the war as he did immediately after the violation of Belgium's neutrality), surrounded by all the professors in cap and gown. The King answered with a few words in English. He was then given a diploma, and our inspection of the University began under the guidance of the President...
...Diploma Awarded...
...Diploma of the Law School was awarded to Archibald MacLeish LL.B. '19, of Glencoe, Ill. This is a diploma given "to the member of each graduating class who, in the judgment of the Law Faculty has, during his three years, by his scholarship, conduct, and character, given evidence of the greatest promise...
...University will not be entitled to any further academic credit for war service, since they have already received academic credit for college work done during their service. Neither are those men who were in the ambulance service, the Y.M.C.A., or any other non-combatant organizations eligible for the War Diploma...