Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...schools as inconsistent with the best college ethics; they seemed in many cases to come from men who had tried and had been disillusioned. Probably these victims had succeeded to getting through with the minimum of effort; but they admitted that they were carrying away little more than a diploma...
...example, is not necessary; and the thesis represents less exacting work. Consequently the degree "with Honors" in English corresponds to the degree "with Distinction" in most other departments; while the degree "with Distinction" in English means considerably less. Yet it is represented by the same words on the diploma, and to the uninitiated it is literally a distinction without a difference. There is nothing to compensate for this disproportion...
...announcement from Middlebury College that work done in extra-curriculum activities will count toward a diploma may well cause the new student movement to pause for reconnoitering. President Moody declares that "the student who has not won a certain minimum number of these credits will not only be ineligible for graduation honors but possibly for graduation as well...
...fairly apparent that a subject which can be adequately treated in a sheaf of notes is out of place in a college curriculum. A great deal of information, even the white-washing diploma, can be obtained from the correspondence schools. If information is all that is wanted, colleges are unnecessary...
...There is no profession that gives a man just starting work better training than does journalism," declared Mr. Edgar A. Guest in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter, "and, even if I had a college diploma. I would not exchange it for the two and a half years I spent in the underworld as a crime reporter...