Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...office messenger haled Student Al Adams, football luminary, from his studies. Al headed for the office wondering if they wanted the correct spelling of his name for his diploma, or something. "Buck" Halperin, another footballer, captain for next fall, followed Al and Sam. So did Lawrence ("Larry") Forster, baseball captain; so did Arthur ("Art") Bramhall, star pitcher; so did Edwin Fogarty, social light; Millard Meyers, Oak Park funnyboy; the two popular Hadfield boys, Bill and Bud-and many another. It was a veritable procession of Oak Park notables, 51 of the leading boy students...
...possesses a Phi Beta Kappa key and a diploma won at the University of Virginia. Well-posted citizens of every nation know him as an outstanding champion of peace in China. Recently he said: "The Chinaman's first problem is to live. Fundamentally our people are simple souls. They want to be clean and prosperous...
...campaign continued so well that three months ago the College of Physicians of Edinburgh restored to him his diploma. Friends urged the General Council for immediate restoration. It might consider the matter at its next semi-annual meeting in June. Last week Dr. Axham died in old age, and posthumous re-establishment would be unprecedented in England...
...wholesome care of the undergraduates--no smoking, restricted week ends, and early closing hours. This benefits the girl. This teaches her. Be she as simple as nature on entering college the dodging of the machine action of these rules brings her at the end of her course the usual diploma. What culture is to a man's college, sophistication is to a woman's. This will show that it is far from true that every girl who goes with college men is a college girl...
There is one kind of education which can be neatly folded together, tied, and placed in a drawer with one's diploma. It is a perfectly respectable thing. It represents a certain amount of work, and it exemplifies an attitude toward education which has never failed of strong supporters. There is another kind, however, which admits as its primary aim the equipment of a human being with tested tools and a certain proficiency with which he may better realize his ultimate potentialities in life. That this latter sort is the kind which is necessary and desirable today is beyond dispute...