Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lowly furnace used to figure prominently in many of the old romantic yarns about Harvard. The poor but earnest youth from the middle West who had come to Cambridge with $2.75 and a high school diploma was always meeting the professor's lovely daughter on the cellar stairs. It was all perfectly Victorian and respectable, of course. He was merely earning an honest penny by tending the furnace fire, while she, sweet and compassionate, simply felt a maternal interest in this rough, untutored youth from the sticks. Page by page he progressed from the cellar to the kitchen and finally...
...Author DeLamater ticks off her items you begin to see what lies behind the demolition of the old schoolhouse, Dressmaker Willow's "handsome diploma from the Sims School of Dressmaking," the Young Men's Club ball in Firemen's Hall. Like its skeletal column, Personals comes to no conclusion, merely ends; but the author has padded the skeleton, dressed it up into an ingenious semblance of life...
...that Emil Szalay's father served two years in the Hungarian army after rebellious Hungary had been subdued by Austria with the help of Nicholas I of Russia, in 1849. As the elder Szalay had been a rebel, had served after his capture only to evade imprisonment, that diploma remained his "shame." To his sons he used to say, pointing to the document, "You must do something good for the Hungarian people to wipe out my disgrace...
...Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Trophy, a plaque showing a cap-&-gowned student clenching a diploma in his hand and striding stiffly across Harvard Yard toward the famed seated statue of Puritan John Harvard, was won by Boston Latin School from 1925 through 1928 successively, then by Exeter, then by Lawrenceville. This year's award, the final year of a second term of competition,* has not yet been made. No matter who is the 1931 winner, the Trophy goes permanently to Boston Latin for having won it four times out of seven...
...themselves constitute the subject matter for a survey. To the critical, the fact will appear as a further indictment of the American collegiate mind. It is becoming apparent that for an increasing number of undergraduates, the four years of university life are chiefly financial investment; the external acknowledgment, the diploma, in its function of "social background" and "vocational recommendation," is rapidly superseding the education itself in point of importance. Hanging from this punky bough is a whole hornet's nest of educational evils, which include, among the more painful stings, "gut-hopping" and the neglecting of natural talents for more...