Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This fall Harvard will take to its bosom 100 extra students, but approximately 88 per cent of them are foredoomed never to get a diploma, none will register in Mem Hall, and they will be instructed by a faculty of undergraduates...
Under the competent guidance of Mrs. Edna Skelton the comic began to amount to something. She wrote routines, made him study with a tutor until he got a high-school diploma, worked his salary up to $300 a week. Daughter of an undertaker she had just completed a course in embalming prior to her marriage. Skelton has never forgotten his friends' warnings that if he married her she could easily slit him open while he slept, pump him full of embalming fluid. Says he: "To this day I sometimes wake up in a cold sweat. . . . I have...
Although a college diploma is no passport to privilege, the 2,700,000 living U.S. alumni and alumnae (about 2% of the population) are influential out of proportion to their numbers. As a group they hold the best jobs, make the most money, live most comfortably. Last week their way of life was surveyed statistically for the first time on a national scale in a report (The U.S. College Graduate) by the Reader Research Department of TIME Inc. The survey sampled 12,728 graduates of 1,048 colleges and universities. Some findings: >By the time they are 40, three-quarters...
...orator, ex-Oxonian Frank Aydelotte presented the President (through General Watson as proxy) for his degree. Lord Halifax read his diploma: ". . . Whereas Franklin Delano Roosevelt . . . has at all times been in the fight for peace, justice and freedom. . . ." General Watson read Franklin Roosevelt's reply...
Last week, having completed the required 120 hours, Mrs. Haggett donned cap & gown, seized her diploma, announced she planned to go on in the fall to get an M.A. in European history...