Word: diplomas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...podium with the class leaders, nor was he one of the nine students who wore a blue satin collar symbolizing membership in the National Honor Society. But for James, his family, his neighborhood and even for this country, the mere fact that he got a diploma was something to be proud...
...been easy to maintain the discipline of figure skating in the atmosphere of Cambridge. The constant interruptions of training and travelling to competitions has forced Wiley to take nine regular semesters and three summer school sessions to achieve his diploma. At twenty-six, he is old relative to a typical undergraduate...
...after months of mutual bliss, Bernard abruptly becomes detached and preoccupied. Laura, growing frantic, assumes that she is being supplanted by another woman. Bernard is ashamed to tell her the real reason for his dwindling ardor: the appearance at his radio station of a stranger who gives him a diploma-like document, handsomely executed and lettered, that reads, "Bernard Bertrand is hereby declared a Complete Ass." This bit of malevolence unhinges him because it makes him realize that many people, perhaps all of Paris, may have the same unflattering opinion of him and that there...
...Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson and her associates, sheds little new light on the question. Instead, it delivers the same old line about female undergraduates possessing "dual citizenship with full privileges in both colleges." This claim is dubious, at best. For some women students, the joint Harvard-Radcliffe diploma they receive at Commencement is the extent of their involvement with Radcliffe. Somehow that doesn't quite seem like dual citizenship...
Like about 80 percent of his Choate classmates, Ayers says, he was a legacy. With that attribute, and the Choate diploma in his pocket, admission to Harvard was no sweat...