Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bottomley, first baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals, was last week awarded $1,000 and a diploma by the Baseball Writers Assn. of America for being the most valuable player in the National League...
...France. Didn't he play tennis once? Didn't he sail a rowboat around the world or something? But the man I cannot place, though I suppose I should, is Skipper Harry Pigeon of Los Angeles. What did he do? Why should he be given an Olympic diploma along with Lindbergh and Gerbault (TIME, Aug. 6)? I have no doubt whatever that he deserved it, but being something of a hero-worshipper I would like a description of just what "Potent Pigeon" accomplished that I have overlooked in the glorious annals of American sportsmanship...
...frivolous whirl of the Harvard-Yale Regatta, and with it there is the normal transition in the thought and feelings of every loyal graduate and undergraduate. Those who prepared to shed a tear for the finishing Seniors in the sentimental graduation milieu, immediately upon the presentation of the last diploma let their thoughts wander New London-ward and shouts and prayers for victory supersede solemn rumination upon the joys and sorrows of graduation...
...name, world-famed, is Abraham Flexner. Born in Louisville, Ky., in 1866, he went into teaching when he received his A. B. from Johns Hopkins University, at the age of 20. Teacher Flexner's life since then has been a constant struggle to raise educational standards: fighting the "diploma mills." working for better education of physicians, bewailing the money spent on armament while universities were in need...
...inflexible. At Harvard alone a fairly large number of candidates receive their degrees in three or three and one-half years; and if any of Dr. Griggs's two-year men should ever come to the University, they too would doubtless receive their deserts and march out, diploma in hand, in a glow of fame. The demands upon teachers, on the other hand, do to a certain extent exist; but the idea of making one or more degrees the summum bonum, sine quanon, be-all and end-all of secondary school instructors is not to be laid at the door...