Word: labelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must be limited to six hundred. Therefore, this year's aspirants to the world of big business will be judged more closely. this special emphasis on character and former training is the natural outgrowth of the expansion of any institution not only because elimination on those grounds perfects the label on the finished product, but also because the larger the number of students the larger is the teaching staff and equipment required. There is only a limited amount of first rate teaching; an indefinite increase in the student body must therefore lower the standard of scholarship...
...curtained windows: disconnected telephones. The dean in scored roundly by freshman and senior alike as an Iowa Yokel rudely out of his Iowa mud-puddle, as a discouraging specimen of what a little learning will do to cold-hoppers. They hope that thinking persons will not allow the Williams label to be pasted on the college...
...product of a stuffing machine-crammed with facts, with information of a more or less unrelated and useless naure . . . when he has poured back enough to score his points, he is branded with an A! B.-and put on the market as a pure product. . . . It is a mere label-a standard bonded label on a bootleg bottle...
...skies to catch a fleeting glimpse of the name on a railroad station, poring over maps to check landmarks with recorded rivers and railroads, these were recent methods of town identification for lost pilots. Then the Guggenheim Fund stepped in and asked towns, corporations and individuals (notably postmasters) to label their localities. More than 8,000 places now have proper roof markings, the Fund reported last week. Foremost among the town labelers were oil companies, who welcome customers from above or below...
...would appear that if the economic value of the A. M. label in secondary school teaching could be converted into that of equivalent work in a school of education, the reason for its existence would disappear. As it is now, it means very little to university faculties and nothing at all in any other profession. But the degree has a fond place in academic tradition, and it is doubtful that it will be universally discarded for many years. But at Mr. Lowell's behest, it may soon vanish at Harvard. --Boston Herald...