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In 1961, when Harvard switched to English diplomas, about 4,000 students protested in the "diploma riots," and criticized the new documents as "Y.M.C.A. certificates".

In a protest over the lack of jobs, the root cause of the uprising, graduating students have glued their diplomas — about a dozen of them — to the entrance of the town's municipal offices.

She wrote: "I WAS NOT going to miss seeing him get his diploma :)" In about another 16 months, Rossi will be saying goodbye to her teen years, and admits there will be aspects of that part of her life that will be difficult to let go.

At the beginning of the 21st century, more than one-third of the population had a high school diploma, about one-third had a junior high school diploma, and more than one-tenth had obtained a college degree.

According to the report, the median wage for District residents with a high school diploma, about $14 an hour, has increased 1percentt over the last 30 years, adjusting for inflation.

Some cautioned that the results could be overstated because Americans without a high school diploma — about 12 percent of the population, down from about 22 percent in 1990, according to the Census Bureau — were a shrinking group that was now more likely to be disadvantaged in ways besides education, compared with past generations.

On paper, it is difficult to understand how this city of 80,000 is struggling: only about 2 percent of its families live below the poverty line; 92 percent of its population has a high school diploma; about half of its adults have at least a bachelor's degree; it is one of the safest cities in the country; and the median value of a house is more than $200,000.

The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and the University of Missouri have awarded diplomas to about 250 and 85 students, respectively, annually for the last several years.

They offered diplomas on about 1,000 U.S. schools," he tells FORBES.

After 80 years, the hulking Brooklyn institution that once graduated a thousand seniors a year will host a scaled down ceremony on Friday, handing out diplomas to about 65 survivors.

THIS is commencement season at colleges and universities around Connecticut, when graduates think about diplomas, college officials worry about the weather and distinguished scholars get ready to don peculiar outfits.