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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yourturntoloveit, post: 66398, member: 57&quot;]That&#039;s certainly possible, Antidiem.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder, though, if perhaps the women (young ladies) may have been given (instead of a &quot;paper&quot; (vellum) or &quot;sheepskin&quot; diploma) a small(ish) &quot;gold&quot; broach/pin or perhaps a lavaliere).</p><p><br /></p><p>One site says that the Georgia Seminary for Young Ladies had a low (select?) enrollment and one year back in the late 1800s graduated a total of five students in one year.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If a small broach/pin/lavaliere of gold was substituted for a diploma it was (probably?) affordable for the seminary at that point.</p><p><br /></p><p>With the graduates being &quot;young ladies,&quot; it would certainly be more of an &quot;advertisement&quot; and perhaps a more beneficial &quot;introduction&quot; into either society or the business world no matter where a graduate wandered.&nbsp; A distinctive piece of gold jewelery for all the world to see could possibly have paved the way for more opportunities for the young lady than carrying around a diploma would have.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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