Word: diploma
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Until this year, I never gave my diploma much thought-beyond, of course, hoping that the College will see fit to bestow one on me in the spring of 2000. I'll probably get it framed or put in a safe scrapbook album next to my high school certificate. But the recent debate over the format of our diplomas (both as regards the language in which they are written and the signatures which appear on them) has given me the chance to consider what all the fuss is about and what exactly I want my diploma to look like...
...Classics concentrator, the Latin question is naturally an easy one to answer. Of course our diplomas should be in Latin. The language may not be universally studied as it once was, but it remains the language of the educational tradition on which this school (and colleges and universities around the world) was founded. To return to Latin would be to acknowledge that tradition. As for the argument that very few of us take Latin anymore and therefore couldn't read our diplomas, I have two responses: first, the Latin on a diploma is not complex and we know what...
...signature question is a little more complex. As it stands now, Harvard male undergraduates receive a diploma with the seals of Harvard University and Harvard College and the signatures of President Neil L. Rudenstine and Dean Lewis. Female undergraduates receive a diploma with the seals of Harvard University and Radcliffe College and the signatures of Rudenstine and Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson. The initial bill proposed in the council to make the diplomas equal did not specify the way in which such equality could be created. The bill was then modified to request that Dean Lewis' signature...
...diploma belongs to a historical legacy, and you should make a decision about the language of the diploma that reflects the legacy," Nelson said...
...write to express our dismay at the attempt by Meredith Bagley, Anna Baldwin and Emma Cheuse to draw the recent debate over women's diplomas away from the root issue of the relationship of Radcliffe to women's undergraduate education and polarize it instead around the person of Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 ("Hasty Rejection," Opinion, April 6). The accusations made against the Dean are unconscionable and unfair. As supporters of the original diploma bill, we feel it is necessary for Harvard University and Radcliffe College to begin a re-evaluation of their relationship regarding female undergraduates...