Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...journalism graduate," according to an old newspaperman's quip, "is only one degree removed from a good reporter." Today, instead of turning away the diploma bearer, U.S. newspapers are bidding eagerly for journalism school graduates-and finding that there are not nearly enough to go around. From Tulane University's 30-student department to Northwestern's famed Medill School of Journalism (enrollment: 482), journalism deans report that they receive up to ten job offers for every graduate. Said a Journalism Quarterly survey of 76 schools last week: "For the second year in a row, not a single...
...Common Sense (Witkower Press; $3.95), by one Dan Dale Alexander, was high on U.S. bestseller lists. It is .sadly misnamed. Alexander is no man of medicine, but a sometime medical technician in the Army (where he rose to the rank of Pfc.) who got a Ph.D. from a London diploma mill. Burden of the book (aside from emphasis on the imagined importance of a full output of ear wax): "Arthritis is a deficiency of specific dietary oils. This deficiency results in a ... lack of better-grade lubricating oils for the bodily joints." The answer to it is just a question...
European medicine has contributed modern surgery, bacteriology, antibiotics, tranquilizing drugs; Switzerland won the Nobel Prize in medicine three times within a ten-year period. And most American professors received their specialty training in Europe. All this from "diploma mills...
...citizens . . . those who are to be cared for by physicians who have had a satisfactory preparation for medical practice, and those whose medical care will be provided by physicians who are graduates of substandard schools." To Veteran Educator Rappleye (Harvard Medical. '18) the situation is "reminiscent of the diploma-mill era of 50 years ago," when fly-by-night schools turned out thousands of inadequately trained doctors...
...Pusey is different. He seems actually to take seriously his own statement that "Education does not cease with the acquisition of a diploma. Being an alumnus is not simply a looking back--but also a continued and intelligent interest in the institution and its problems...