Minor gripe

[jsburbidge]

I was hearing on the CBC today about people graduating from high school.  Uh-uh.  To graduate means to be admitted to a degree (== a status: one "is a bachelor of arts", not "has a bachelor of arts"), i.e a gradus (thus: "Admitto te ad gradum".)  A high school confers no degree.  One matriculates from high school, since what one receives is a diploma, not a degree. (When I was young we did not have "high school graduation"; we had "commencement exercises".)