Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Taken to Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan, Cora Carpenter told nurses that she too had once been a nurse, that she too had been graduated from the Bellevue Nurses Training School. An old book was found, full of the names of nurses who had received diplomas from Bellevue. The oldest nurse at Bellevue had been in the class of 1876. She, a crisp, erect old lady, eyed the book for the name of Cora Carpenter. As she rustled pages, turning her mind to a time when she, a little nervous, very serious, had stood up to receive her diploma, she said slowly...
...feature of the Law School Commencement this year was the awarding of degrees with honors in the same manner as that traditionally followed in the College. H.J. Friendly '23 was the first law student in Harvard University to be graduated summa cum laude. He also received the Fay Diploma, which has long been the highest honor in the Law School...
...young woman from Wisconsin came to Washington to study law. Law schools at that time refused to accept women students. Only the Law School at Howard University would admit her, and Howard University is a Negro institution. Undaunted, the woman from Wisconsin entered Howard, studied with Negroes, received her diploma. In 1881 she was admitted to the District of Columbia bar. Last week in Washington many an organization assembled to honor Emma M. Gillett's memory. Born in a log cabin in Wisconsin in 1852 she was, at the time of her death (January, 1927), Dean...
Higher education, like lower religion, was once regarded as a field for commercial exploitation. Indeed, "diploma mills" still flourish, teaching all things from ethics to how-to-be-a-Prohibition-agent...
...Heights, N. Y., his one conventional experience. From Horace Mann School, he testifies, he was dismissed as a hopeless moron. At Columbia University they found him a "capital" student, but finding the University after three and a half years a little irksome he blithely whistled good-bye to his diploma and the final semester, to become a painter. From his studies he was lured successively by Vermont, Alaska, the Straits of Magellan, Labrador, the Alps, Tierra del Fuego, Newfoundland. In one place he was arrested for assaulting a swindler. In Newfoundland, the good fisherfolk, seeing him staring...