Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter of credit." Dr. Jessup found that collegiate hoboism, once thought of as a shiftless, spendthrift, boomtime phenomenon, had in the past few years reached appalling proportions. Although it is commonly supposed that the typical college student enters as a freshman and emerges from the same college with a diploma four years later, actually today most students transfer or drop out before commencement day. Only one-third receive degrees in the college in which they started...
Business executives, who do most of the hiring, were less impressed than hopeful parents by a college diploma. Some 42% of them favored a high-school graduate, only 29% a college...
...some three years ago, 24-year-old Lloyd L. Gaines, Negro, bearing a diploma from Missouri's Lincoln University (for Negroes), presented himself at University of Missouri, surprised its officials by proposing to enter their Law School. In its 96 years, the university had never admitted a Negro. Like all Southern States, Missouri makes Negroes and whites attend separate schools...
...Swiss, and was trained as an engineer, but after taking his diploma he turned to the history of art and received his Doctor's degree. He has travelled throughout Europe, making investigations of the fundamental sources of all building problems, especially the social developments that have followed the introduction of the machine...
They can do this by walking a mile for each demerit. To get his diploma one boy at the eleventh hour had to walk 100 miles...