You carry away a parchment -- keep it. In the time being its utility is small although even now you can use a McGill degree as constructive evidence of mental sanity, barring any direct evidence to the contrary and even now you will find that your degree is accepted practically everywhere as absolv-ing you from any test for illiteracy except as a mere matter of form.
From Stephen Leacock's message to the Class of '44, written shortly before he died.
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