Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Golden, the Colorado School of Mines graduated its largest class (290 engineers) in style. Instead of a sheepskin, each graduate received a five-by-six-inch diploma of sterling silver. The text of each of the four-ounce plates had been photo-engraved, but President Ben H. Parker had to sign them all by hand. He used an electric vibrating scribe, a gadget that looked something like a fountain pen. Said President Parker: "There was nothing...
...Diploma holders seeking employment will have to buck against fever jobs and a bumper crop of graduates, Ewen Clague, Federal Commissioner of Labor Statistics, said in a statement yesterday...
This time, the juniors gave a supper for Eva Mae, and the whole town turned out for graduation exercises last week. Eva Mae got a diploma, a certificate for three years of perfect attendance, and a compliment from Principal A. M. Gardner, who said that her marks were "above medium." Somebody asked her how she had liked school. Said Eva Mae: "Well, it was awfully strange...
...Goucher went hunting for a new (and sixth) president, it found just the man it wanted, at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. Balding, 47-year-old Otto Frederick Kraushaar had been teaching philosophy at Smith for 14 years. He liked Goucher just fine, both for size (he scorns mass "diploma mills") and for the fact that he'd still be teaching women ("If you educate a man, you educate an individual; if you educate a woman, you educate a family"). By last week, when he was inaugurated, Philosopher Kraushaar found himself facing a few problems unique to Goucher that...
...should propose important changes in Harvard procedure. There is the matter of rents--with the additional money next year, there seems little reason for any rise in overall room rates. More money now should also be enough of a booster to prevent deterioration in instruction which has made a diploma from many colleges farcical since...