Word: diploma
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sometimes I wonder whether we aren't a little bit too accepting of it. Naturally it makes sense that we, as students, haven't made up our minds yet about what to do with ourselves. And if you think about it, it also makes sense that conferring a diploma on somebody might not necessarily spark an instantaneous decision. But after a while, doesn't the endless moving, the constant future-looking, the neverending eagerness for what to do Next--doesn't it start...
Sykes continued her studies at Harvard, havingjust enough money to finish writing her thesisbefore returning to Australia. Unfortunately, shehad to return to Australia in December, 1983without a doctorate diploma because she could notafford to stay until graduation...
Several months later, the Harvard Club ofAustralia organized a large ceremony at SydneyUniversity to present Sykes her official degree.Although it was too difficult for an aborigine toreceive a high school diploma one decade earlier,Sykes defied the odds and graduated with a mastersand doctorate from Harvard University...
...students on both sides of the issue agree on anything, it is that the diploma debate brought to light current student opinion about Radcliffe...
...Taking the Radcliffe seal and Linda Wilson's signature off my diploma is not going to change the fact that I didn't find the resources I needed at Harvard," Bagneris says. "What it does do is erase the history of Radcliffe...