Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stamping ground for the masses. In an attempt to stem this deluge of mediocrity universities have stiffened their entrance requirements and bolstered up the standard of their curriculums. As a system of restriction this has been relatively successful and it has also lent weight and respect to a diploma, but it has rendered the task of the secondary school infinitely more difficult. As Frederick Winsor pointed out in the recently published minutes of the Harvard Alumni Association all boys must have, at least, a high school education. Many of these boys go to a private preparatory school burdened with...
...generation hence many a citizen of Outagamie County, Wisconsin, will be able to point with pride to his framed grade school diploma and tell his moppets that he received it on the very steps of the U. S. Capitol. Episodes to be related to Outagamie offspring happened last week in Washington...
...highest honor in the Law School, the Fay Diploma, went to Orrin Grimmell Judd, of Brooklyn, New York. Eleven men were graduated Magna cum Laude and one Summa cum Laude...
Nurtured on ""Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the Calvinistic faith, the long panorama of Dr. Wiley's life unrolls its most colorful chapter at the beginning, where early American life grows into school and college from the backwoods struggle for existence. Graduated from Harvard in 1873 he received his diploma from Dr. Charles William Eliot, then known as the "Boy President", was stimulated by the parting lectures of Louis Agassiz, and witnessed the first Harvard-Yale baseball game...
...each of whom labors up far the not unreasonable expectation of getting something worth while in return, Ten years ago it was a matter of some disquiet. Youth seemed to be attracted into the colleges less by the delights of pure learning than by the fact that the diploma appeared to be a golden passport to the amenities of the white-collar life and to social if not financial advancement. How was it possible to prevent their being disappointed? It was obvious that neither the History of Art nor Biology B offered a particularly sound training for the acquisition...