Word: certificat
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...John Morrow, a Negro,* proved himself a relaxed, suave diplomat in knowledgeable answers to the committee's polite questions, impressed members with a pin-striped academic pedigree. He holds a B.A. from Rutgers University (Phi Beta Kappa,'31), M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, Certificat Avancé from France's Sorbonne, has a scholar's command of Latin, French and Spanish and a reading knowledge of German and Portuguese. Now head of the modern language department in North Carolina College at Durham, he is a slave's grandson, one of five accomplished children...
...this began to have a disastrous effect on the academic standards of Ifs. In seven years, only one of M. Mériel's pupils managed to win the official certificat necessary to go on to secondary school. Worried parents began sending their children to schools out of town. Gradually, the Ifs enrollment dropped...
...science. Hereafter a student will be admitted to these faculties on an American bachelor's degree, and will be permitted to choose his studies. After pursuing any scientific course a year, he can, if he wishes, apply for an examination in this branch, and if successful obtain a certificat d'etude. Three such certificates, taken, for instance, say, in calculus, pure mechanics and astronomy, will make him a licencie, and he can then secure the French doctorate, which is decidedly superior to the German, upon the presentation of a satisfactory thesis. If the student has the ability, and so desires...
...France, on the contrary, the examinations coming first, each step is punctuated, the student receiving independent credits for every portion of his work. If he acquits himself in one branch only he still has his certificat, while three, as has been explained, give him the licence. If interrupted in his work, before securing a degree, he can withdraw with honorable credentials for at least that portion of the work which he has accomplished...