Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus may read in future the name of the young son of Cicero Sapp, of Sunday comic fame, for it was reported in yesterday's comic strips that the youthful prodigy plans to enter Harvard. In fact we are shown a picture of Cyril, high school diploma under his arm, facing a baldheaded gentleman at a desk labelled "Dean". In fairness to the occupants of University 4, it must be admitted that the gentleman pictured does not resemble any of them, but he must be a Harvard dean, for there is a large "H" on his clair and a Harvard...
...first prize this year was won by the new Saks building, 49th to 50th Streets on the East side of Fifth Avenue. The prize consists of a gold medal and diploma. The building is in the English Renaissance style...
...present headmistress, Dr. Caroline Ruutz-Rees, at Wallingford, Conn., moving to Greenwich in 1900. Miss Ruutz-Rees (Democratic National Committeewoman for Connecticut) is English by birth and education, and her school has something of the English temper. Its physical and intellectual life is robust, "not for weaklings."* The diploma requirement is admission by examination to Bryn Mawr, Vassar or Smith College. Field hockey, basketball, self-government and brains are the things for which Rosemary has become noted. Associated with Miss Ruutz-Rees are Miss Mary E. Lowndes, who rides horseback and thinks vigorously at 70; and Miss Margaret Augur...
...must aim higher. Of course we might make some changes in the small traditional colleges, to wake them up. I have often thought we might examine all the students at the end of the sophomore year, and those who proved their ignorance we could present with their A. B. diploma and send home. If one is doing nothing but accumulate college life two years will suffice to accumulate it all. The other students, who had learned something, we might keep on for the four years, and at the end we might give them too their A. B. diplomas. The difference...
...which 130 were nonsectarian, 19 homeopathic, 8 eclectic, 3 physiomedical, 2 nondescript. The numbers have, been gradually reduced so that in 1924 there are 73 nonsectarian, 2 homeopathic, 1 eclectic, 3 nondescript. Of the nondescript colleges, two are intimately connected with osteopathy, and one intimately associated with the notorious diploma-mill ring which was the subject of recent exposure...