Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Impatient Patients. By that time, Dr. Lincoln claimed to have an "entirely new system of medicine," and his fame was spreading far beyond the elm-lined streets of Medford. In Arkansas, Dr. Jacob S. Schirmer, graduate of a shut-down diploma mill and one-time follower of Cancer Quack William Koch, got the local franchise for the Lincoln treatment. Other "fellows" of the Lincoln Foundation set up shop in 22 states...
...decades ago, tutoring at Harvard was a Big Business: a noisy, commercial, highly competitive industry that threatened to destroy the meaning of a Harvard diploma...
Wolff's Tutors advertised: "Diploma by Harvard--Tutoring by Wolff." The College Tutoring Bureaus claimed that it "has helped hundreds of Harvard students get better grades in their courses. We are now ready to serve you with our Notes, Outlines, and Liberal Translations." University Tutors made a different sort of appeal: "Midnight oil; loathesome toil." Another group advertised that "tutoring ....is not a crutch for the lasy or unintelligent bay, but a constructive educational technique...
...front-page editorial slashed out: "Lined up on Massachusetts Avenue, grinning obscenely down over Harvard Yard, there is a row of Intellectual brothels....They are making a mockery of a Harvard education, a lie of a Harvard diploma...
Graduation, for instance, assumes new importance, while the specter of General Hershey, once seen lurking behind every diploma, is forgotten. Alternate routes to New York and the relative merits of Ford convertibles occupy the time and thought formerly allotted bloody ridges and cabinet crises. Politics are lost in a profusion of baseball scoresheets, and the frantic maneuverings of vote-seekers eclipsed by candidates for the Hall of Fame...