Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pickle, is caught between a snarl and a smile, the snarl usually winning out. "You are not talking with just anyone's fool," she snorts indignantly. "I am a high school graduate." Who could doubt that Ernestine, the world's most famous telephone operator, has her diploma-or that Lily Tomlin, her creator, is the funniest, most inventive comedienne to come along since Elaine...
...fate will also be determined by a special Faculty meeting slated for October 3. The meeting was scheduled last June after 92 Faculty members sought a review of her case. She was found guilty by the CRR and required to withdraw for one year thereby denying her a diploma although she had fulfilled all requirements for a degree
...children who attend elementary schools with high budgets probably gain no more than a five-point advantage on standard tests over those enrolled in low-budget schools. Differences among public high schools affect their students even less. "Almost every high school has some dropouts, some students who take a diploma but do not attend college, and some students who enter college." With surprisingly little variation between schools, the ratio of those groups to one another is now about 1 to 2 to 2, according to Jencks...
...might possibly improve his wages if he did not affect the average, but if all had gotten diplomas, it would only mean what it already means - employers would demand more education for exactly the same work at the same wages. The only difference would be that more people would feel cheated because their diploma didn't mean anything much...
...students who sat-in at Government Department offices in protest of Harvard's complicity in the Vietnam and Angola wars, is petty as well as illegitimate. It came three days before Blustein was to graduate; she will now have to wait at least a year to pick up her diploma. Such a pronouncement from the ill-conceived disciplinary body can only be condemned. We ask that the charges against Messing (which are due for reconsideration in the fall), as well as those against Blustein, be suspended until a more fairly composed body is available to hear them...