Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program, to begin in the fall of 1955 for qualified students, included: early admission from eleventh grade without high school diploma; advanced placement in courses not regularly open to freshmen; course reduction; sophomore standing directly from his school with immediate entrance into the Houses...
...March of the Priests [TIME, Feb. i], I must say I was flattered by the inference that my musical knowledge was so eclectic and vast. Dear me, the reason why I knew the name of that tune was because I had marched to it to get my high-school diploma and had for years confused it with Pomp and Circumstance. But once somebody called my attention to the error, and, thank heaven, I profited by the correction-or at least, Brooklyn's Norwegian Children's Home profited...
Last week the college announced that Richard had completed all his requirements with a 3.94 average out of a possible 4.0. "It really wasn't difficult at all," says Richard, who certainly ought to know. When he receives his diploma next June, it will carry the three words, summa cum laude...
...Scholar. In East Orrington, Me., 22 years after he failed to graduate from Brewer High School because he had not written an assigned book report, Avery D. Olmstead Jr., 40, turned 'in the essay, got his diploma...
...novel's end, Cress's folks call her back from college to be at her dying grandfather's bedside. In a scene less solid than symbolic, Cress, now 16, gets her diploma from girlhood, and finally meets, in the fact of her grandfather's death, a reality larger than herself...