Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pietro Scarpini the kudos was no surprise. He was a child prodigy who rattled off Liszt's Rhapsody No. 12 in public when he was six, won his piano diploma from Rome's St. Cecilia Conservatory when he was twelve. Today he is professor of piano at the University of Florence. There was just one thing about his Manhattan reception that puzzled him: "I don't understand the review that said I played very well, but it was a bad work. I don't play bad works. If I did, I could not play them well...
...intensify interest in their campuses, and thus, in a sense, have themselves created the problem of multiple applications. The high school student from Iowa often is no longer content to attend the state university. He feels, instead, that he should try for the added laurels of an Ivy diploma...
Metcalf, who reaches the administrative retirement age of 66 this spring, has been at the University for 17 years. He came to Harvard from the New York Public Library, where he had been Chief of the Reference Department. He had received the diploma of that library's School in 1914, and had worked there 24 years...
Along with the rest, even though Marlon never quite made a high-school diploma, goes an impressive intellect. He reads constantly (e.g., Nietzsche, Lao-tse, psychoanalytical textbooks), and has quite a flair for verbal imagery (he once described Wally Cox as "an old. fragile, beautifully embroidered Chinese ceremonial robe, with a few little Three-in-One oil spots...
...Richard Fletcher, 47, director of student affairs, fell the job of investigation; he swiftly recommended disciplinary action. Virginia's able President Colgate Darden, onetime state governor, heard the evidence, expelled four undergraduates, suspended seven more for one' year and withheld the diploma of a recent graduate. A special investigating committee of the university's board of visitors backed him up. So did the full board in principle, although it shortened some of the suspensions...