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GRADUATION KEY
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NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
ENCASED IN LUCITE CUBE
MEASURES ABOUT 5cm X 6cm X 5cm
CIRCA 1950s

WE SUSPECT IT IS STERLING SILVER
 

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FYI

Northwestern University is a private, coeducational, non-sectarian research university, located in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois. Northwestern's main campus is a 240-acre (97 ha) parcel in Evanston, along the shore of Lake Michigan. Several of Northwestern's professional schools are located in Chicago, on a 25-acre (10 ha) campus near the Magnificent Mile. As of 2006, Northwestern's endowment and other trust funds total approximately $5.9 billion.

Northwestern University enrolls approximately 15,000 full-time students (including approximately 8,000 undergraduates) and employs nearly 7,100 faculty and staff members.

Northwestern's highly acclaimed student newspaper is The Daily Northwestern, its student radio station is WNUR and its student television news network is NNN. It is a member of the Big Ten Conference for college athletics. The official school color is purple.

The school is commonly referred to as simply Northwestern, and although some refer to the university as "NW" or "NWU", NU is the abbreviation that the school uses.

History 
The Arch at Northwestern's Evanston campusFounded in 1851 by Methodists from Chicago (including John Evans, after whom Evanston is named), Northwestern opened in 1855 with two faculty members and ten students. The University's name, Northwestern, came from its founders' desire to serve citizens of the states that occupied the area of the former Northwest Territory: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Northwestern created its Chicago campus during the 1920s.

The phrase on Northwestern's seal is Quaecumque sunt vera -- in Latin, "Whatsoever things are true" from Philippians 4:8. Also on Northwestern's seal, a Greek phrase inscribed on the pages of an open book: ho logos pleres charitos kai aletheias, which translates as "The Word... full of grace and truth." This phrase comes from the Gospel of John (1:14): "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we behold His glory, and the glory was of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." Both the Latin and Greek phrases express the values of the University's founders, and recall Northwestern's Methodist heritage.

Northwestern's founding charter granted the school a permanent exemption from paying property taxes. For this reason, Northwestern has often endured a difficult relationship with Evanston's government. Tensions have arisen regarding building codes, law enforcement, and politics. Recently, factions of Evanston's government have attempted to divide Northwestern's campus into several different wards, so as to reduce students' voting potency.

In 1873, the Evanston College for Ladies merged with Northwestern, and legendary suffragist Frances Willard became the school's first dean of women.

Purple became Northwestern's official school color in 1892, replacing black and gold. A university committee thought that too many other universities used those colors. Contrary to popular belief, white is only an unofficial color. The University's Alma Mater mentions white in conjunction with purple ("Hail to purple, hail to white"), but nonetheless, purple is the only official school color.

During the 1930s, Northwestern nearly merged with its academic rival, the University of Chicago. In 1933, Northwestern president Scott and Chicago president Hutchins concluded that in order to secure the future of both universities, it was in the best interest of both to merge as the Universities of Chicago, with Northwestern's Evanston campus serving undergraduates, Northwestern's Chicago campus serving professionals, and Chicago's Hyde Park campus serving postgraduates. What Scott and Hutchins initially envisioned as the preeminent university in the world was eventually extinguished by Northwestern's boards of trustees, a result that Hutchins called "one of the lost opportunities of American education."

Northwestern hosted the first ever NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship game in 1939. It took place in Patten Gymnasium, which the school eventually demolished and relocated farther north in order to make room for the Technological Institute.

In 1948, prominent anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits founded the Program of African Studies at Northwestern, the first center of its kind at an American academic institution.

On January 11, 2003, in a speech at Northwestern School of Law's Lincoln Hall, Governor of Illinois George Ryan announced that he would commute the sentences of more than 150 death row inmates. Ryan said, "it is fitting that we are gathered here today at Northwestern University with the students, teachers, lawyers and investigators who first shed light on the sorrowful conditions of Illinois’ death penalty system." In the late 1990s, Northwestern student journalists uncovered information that exonerated Illinois death row inmate Anthony Porter two days before his scheduled execution.

Trivia
In May 1978, the first Unabomber attack occurred at Northwestern University. The following year, the second Unabomber attack also occurred at Northwestern.

In the fall of 1999, Oprah Winfrey taught a class entitled "Dynamics of Leadership" at the Kellogg School of Management.

Men's Fitness magazine named Northwestern the fifth-fittest college in America in 2005.

The Chicago Transit Authority's elevated train running through Evanston is called the Purple Line, taking its name from Northwestern's school color. Although the majority of the campus sits two to four city blocks from the Purple Line, the Foster station is within walking distance of the southern end of the campus, while the Noyes station is close to the northern end of the campus. The Central station is close to Ryan Field, Northwestern's football stadium. Northwestern's professional schools and hospital in downtown Chicago are about four blocks east of the Chicago stop on the CTA Red Line.

References in popular culture
Fictional alumni of Northwestern include: Josie Geller (Drew Barrymore; Never Been Kissed), Andrea Sachs (Anne Hathaway; The Devil Wears Prada), Natalie Hurley (Sabrina Lloyd; Sports Night), Augie March (The Adventures of Augie March), and Sara Tancredi (Sarah Wayne Callies; Prison Break).
Daniel Cosgrove's character, Richard "Dick" Bagg, in Van Wilder interviews with representatives from Northwestern's medical school.
Jonathan Bennett's character, Aaron Samuels, in Mean Girls attends Northwestern at the end of the film. Also, the parents of Lindsay Lohan's character are professors at the university.
Gwyneth Paltrow's character, Catherine Llewellyn, in the movie Proof is a graduate student in the Department of Mathematics at Northwestern University. She drops out of school to take care of her father, Robert Llewellyn, an ailing mathematician.
Steve Martin's character in Cheaper by the Dozen coaches football at a school that is clearly supposed to be Northwestern.
Mena Suvari's character in American Pie is thinking of applying to Northwestern, but says that the essays are pretty tough.
Sarah Michelle Gellar's titular character Buffy Summers in the TV show Buffy The Vampire Slayer gets accepted to Northwestern in the season three episode 'Choices', but turns it down for the (fictional) University of California, Sunnydale.
Meadow Soprano, the daughter in HBO's The Sopranos, declares her intention to transfer from Columbia University in New York to Northwestern.
Scott Foley's character Noel on the WB show Felicity has a long-distance relationship with his high school girlfriend Hannah (Jennifer Garner), who attends music school at Northwestern.
Twins Brenda (Shannen Doherty) and Brandon (Jason Priestly) Walsh on the popular television show Beverly Hills, 90210 both considered Northwestern before deciding to attend the fictional California University.
Major League's 'library scene' was filmed at Northwestern's Charles Deering Library.
Matt Le Blanc's character in Joey lies to a film producer about having graduated from Northwestern to get an audition in a TV show.
Jennifer Aniston's character's love interest in "The Break Up" tells her that he graduated from Northwestern.
Lee and others in the movie Melinda and Melinda are NU graduates.
Shiri Appleby's character Liz Parker on the sci-fi series "Roswell" is accepted by Northwestern but can not attend.
Masiela Lusha's character Carmen on the "George Lopez Show" is rejected from Northwestern.
In Danny Phantom, Northwestern Standardized Testing was mention in one episode; there is a possibility that it is referring to tests for entering Northwestern, and likely places the fictional town of Amity Park somewhere in Illinois or more specifically the Chicagoland region.
Matthew Perry's character in "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" mentions that his nephew is applying to Northwestern.

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In 1904, the City of Evanston, because of the number of automobiles already in operation in the community and in an effort to regulate the movement of the automobiles in the interest of public safety, established an eight mile per hour speed limit on city streets. Then, in what was named a "speed trap" by one local writer, officers from the Evanston Police Department "hid" in the bushes and timed passing automobiles with stop watches as they drove between two tape markers placed on the pavement. Despite these early efforts, traffic crashes had become a problem and in 1927 Evanston was ranked fifth in the nation in traffic crashes and fatalities, many of which involved pedestrians.

Recognizing the tragic impact upon families and communities resulting from such high crash rates, Franklin M. Kreml, then a young officer of the Evanston Police Department and full time undergraduate student at Northwestern, led the effort to address the issue. In 1929, the department established the Accident Prevention Bureau under the direction of then Sergeant Kreml. The Bureau developed a traffic safety model that brought together research, education, engineering and enforcement that resulted in Evanston being declared "America’s Safest City" by the National Safety Council. In 1936, Northwestern University established the Traffic Safety Institute with Lieutenant Kreml as its founding director. The Institute also became and served concurrently as the operating arm of the first "Traffic Safety Committee" of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). The Traffic Institute quickly became the world leader in traffic crash investigation, prevention and police management and has maintained that reputation ever since.

The world has changed significantly since our founding in 1936; however, the need for solid, cutting-edge education has not. NUCPS built on the Traffic Institute's tradition of excellence by expanding the scope of our programs to include a comprehensive offering of crash investigation and transportation engineering, police operations and management courses. The Traffic Safety School, which serves the general public and provides customized learning experiences for business fleet operators, is another division of NUCPS that promotes public safety on a daily basis. NUCPS conducts these educational programs not only in North America but also in the Middle East, Far East, South America and Africa and continues to expand into other international markets. To reflect this expanded mission, the Traffic Institute was renamed the Northwestern University Center for Public Safety in 2000.

In addition to training, NUCPS helped to successfully lobby for the establishment of the Highway Safety Act of 1970 which created the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. NUCPS continues to be part of national efforts to develop highway design standards that maximize safety, to identify and evaluate strategies to combat impaired driving, and to identify and highlight model traffic service personnel and programs among the nation’s law enforcement agencies. For more than two decades, NUCPS has partnered with Harley Davidson to educate law enforcement professionals in safe motorcycle operation techniques. Finally, NUCPS literally “wrote the book” on crash investigation and reconstruction, and its textbooks set the standard for crash investigators around the world.

In recognition of NUCPS's dedication to public safety, City of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel proclaimed Sunday, October 23, 2011 as Chicago’s “Northwestern University Center for Public Safety Day.”

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