"matriculation" = graduation

[Jonathan Lighter]

Another fun blunder - Ph.D. style !

  2003 Edward Hoffman _The Wisdom of Carl Jung_ (N.Y.: Citadel Press, 2003) 7
  In the spring of 1895, following his matriculation from the Gymnasium, he registered as a student at the University of Basel Medical School.

  Dr. Hoffman, a clinical psychologist, has written "major biographies of Abraham Maslow and Alfred Adler."

  JL


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