Congrats to Jimbo, but these honorary degrees remind me of Euclid's famous words-"There is no royal path to education". Maybe this is the answer?
wikien-l-request@Wikipedia.org wrote: Message: 8 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:27:18 -0400 From: Katefan0 Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Congrats for Jimbo To: "English Wikipedia" Message-ID: 95d0b4e50604241827t37573c4ctd509f936139bc56a@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
It's generally a recognition of some achievement outside of a university, usually for people who have achieved celebrity in some way. It's a nice recognition of some achievement for the recipient, but it's also nice for the university, which has another celebrity to add to its "list of celebrity alumni."
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