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If I create a school called "The University in Harvards Honor" and give myself a diploma, am I a Harvard alumni?
by styren 5y ago
If I create a school called "The University in Harvards Honor" and give myself a diploma, am I a Harvard alumni?
- mhh__ 5y agoIf Harvard decided to give it to you, then maybe?
- lowkey_ 5y agoWell this link is on nobelprize.org, the website of the official organization in charge of the Nobel Prize Committee. Thus, it's more like the comment you were replying to — creating a new degree program within Harvard University that John Harvard didn't authorize. Your analogy would be more accurate if this were not in fact created, endorsed, and run by the Nobel Foundation.
- styren 5y agoYou're right, but it was endorsed as a prize in his honor, not as a Nobel Prize with all that entails. Therefore it's incorrect to call it such. It's never called (or at least very seldomly) a Nobel Prize in Sweden as that isn't true.
- Godel_unicode 5y agoCounter-point: yes it is. https://www.thelocal.se/20211011/trio-share-nobel-prize-for-new-insights-about-the-labour-market/ https://www.thelocal.se/20211011/trio-share-nobel-prize-for-...
- legitster 5y agoThe Nobel Memorial Prize is still administered by the Nobel Foundation. This isn't a made up connection.
- koziserek 5y agowell it somewhat works for some Oxford Brookes grads ;)
- shapefrog 5y agoAh a fellow Oxford alumni, which college were you in old sport? Umm Brookes