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Word: diploma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intellectual elite--the burden of future progress. We shirk that burden if we choose to live anonymously or apathetically. Yet it is not we who will suffer but those who are younger, less educated, less wealthy--those who are not inoculated from stigma and violence with a Harvard diploma...

Author: By Adam S. Hickey, | Title: A Moral Obligation | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...Citadel will ever see fit to take the initiative and welcome gays into their ranks. Presumably, however, officers who have spent time on this campus would be more sympathetic to the idea. From the perspective of progressives, one must conclude that the more generals with a Harvard diploma, the better...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Why We Should Bring Back ROTC | 4/9/1999 | See Source »

Trouble indeed begins as soon as I descend into the T. I am stopped by an Ad Board Gestapo Patrol. Wearing masks to preserve their anonymity and sporting "No Escape" tattoos, they chant "none shall pass" and burn a mock-up of my diploma...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Seeking Asylum at the Harvard of the West | 3/2/1999 | See Source »

Stotland failed her junior and senior years of high school but still obtained her General Equivalency Diploma (GED). She worked as a museum guide, an Omniplex projectionist and a free-lance caterer before attending Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania for two years, then coming to Harvard as a junior transfer student...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Late in the Game: Life as a Mature Harvard Student | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...feeling at the time was, and still is, if you cannot pass an easy test of basic, general literacy skills, I do not want you receiving a diploma from my University. It would lower the credibility of an education from the University, and that's not fair to those of us who have no problem performing basic math skills and forming complete sentences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

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