Word: diploma
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What is the only existing Harvard diploma in the College collection unsigned by a College president has recently been added to the University archives by the Society of Friends of the Library. It is an honorary S. T. D. granted in 1773 to Samuel Locke, a member of the Class...
...explanation of this is not so difficult as it might seem for at the time the diploma was granted to him Locke was president of the College and so naturally did not sign his own sheepskin. The Follows and the Treasurer were the only signatories...
Soon as he could he entered a London medical school, studying there for eight years, until in 1889 he was given a diploma as a physician, surgeon and midwife. While in medical school he initiated and edited the Mermaid Series of Elizabethan dramatists and a series of books called Contemporary Science. Later he wrote poetry and literary essays. His world reputation today, however, rests almost entirely upon his calm encyclopedic surveys of the love-life of men & women, of its aberrations, and of its relation to society...
...diploma issued to Samuel Mather in 1701 by his grand uncle, Increase Mather, Harvard president and famous preacher, which is believed to be the second oldest Harvard diploma in existence, has been presented to the University by the Harvard Club of New York City in honor of the Tercentenary...
Reviewing of elementary courses, in the manner specified by the Union Committee, is an interesting experiment in solving the problem. Its aim is to provide a worthwhile substitute for a tutoring school. Not only is a fat wallet less liable to buy an education and a diploma under these circumstances, but also the lean one may get, free, much of what a tutorial school can give...