Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result, the Harvard diploma, which appeared about as attainable as a set of tires to many in 1941, now becomes the well-earned possession of many a young officer and enlisted man. The great and universally-felt fear of tailspinning standards, the bogey-like dilemma of a year ago, has been avoided by the preservation of a great part of the teaching faculty, and a resolute rigidity in the entrance requirements...
Maintaining the usual admission requirement of a high school diploma or its equivalent, the College will continue its accelerated year-round program and will admit a regular Freshman class this June, it was announced yesterday by Paul H. Buck, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Tulane. Rice says of his alma mater: "The diploma said I was a baccalaris artium, and when the president handed it to me he welcomed me into the 'company of educated men.' They were both liars...
...back home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northeastern Georgia for the second time because he had run out of money, went back to college for a third, fourth and fifth time. Finally, at 32, he made it, came home to shake under Uncle Rollin's nose a diploma from Harvard, where he graduated in 1899 with Henry James and a heap of other smart...
Phillips (whose real name is Arthur Osborne Phillips) finally got a diploma from the University of Tennessee medical college in 1930 by posing as the James Herman Phillips (no relation) who graduated from that school in 1916. Impostor Phillips had served as orderly to the real Dr. James H. Phillips in the Army Medical Corps in World War I. He picked up more medical lore and tricks of surgery in prison hospitals. He made one modest attempt to come up the hard way: a brief internship (1930) in a West Virginia hospital, from which he was dismissed for "unprofessional conduct...