Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sutcliffe, who was for a time secretary to " Dean " Waldo Briggs, of the St. Louis diploma mill, revealed how students were turned out after attending a half dozen classes, with records falsified to show four years of medical instruction. Diplomas were issued wholesale at $250 up. Classes of " dumb-bell " graduates were crammed through the state board examinations in Colorado and Connecticut at so much a head...
...plan as announced is definite in its details. By it, steady day-to-day work is expected to replace pre-examination cramming, and a diploma is to be earned "by honest work from day to day and month to month." Moreover it is proposed that a "B" standing in this daily work be required. The latter requirement is, perhaps, necessary if Columbia wishes to teach those alone who have a "B desire" to learn. But obviously the plan must include some system of frequent classroom examinations or quisses to determine who does and who does not possess that desire...
...United States. Our primary schools consist of seven grades, which correspond to the first eight grades in this country. Our high schools, or secondary schools, have four years for the full course, exactly as have the American schools. These two groups of education are open to both sexes. The diploma which is given at the end of the secondary education is acceptable by all American colleges and universities. Indeed, many of our high school graduates have taken the college entrance examinations and have come to Harvard...
...Louis reporter charged that a " diploma mill" centering in Missouri was turning out bogus high school and medical college diplomas for a consideration. Howard Sidener, U. S. circuit attorney, started an inquiry. William P. Sachs, former examiner of the Missouri School Department voluntarily appeared at Mr. Sidener's office and confessed to having taken part in such a ring. He named two doctors of St. Louis and Kansas City as members of the clique, and admitted that in ten years he had sold over 1,000 high school certificates (necessary prelude to medical diplomas and state licenses...
...back. We must make her understand that her work is honorable. . . . Why not recruit an Order for domestic service on lines similar to the Red Cross? Call it the Gold Cross Order, and insist on a standard of efficiency and good conduct for membership. Have a recognized diploma and badge and invite women of good position to take the lead by joining...