Word: mortarboards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then it came. "How to Finish High School at Home." 8 1/2" x 11". 24 pp. With serene confidence, a young man and a young woman, dressed in black mortarboard and academic robes, stared at me from the cover. They have seen what it's like, I thought, the sock-hops and the hoop frays, the twirling batons and the blaring bands. Tears welled to my eyes as I opened the booklet...
...years or so to keep academe from feeling too stodgy. Last week, at graduation, Columbia showed its new doctoral dress. Slate grey with a facing of black velvet replaces the black that is customary in the U.S. A four-cornered soft tarn with a gold tassel replaces the stiff mortarboard. The university thoughtfully advised academic plumage-watchers to note the border of the hood for "the color indicating the discipline to which the degree pertains: arts and letters, including journalism, white; theology, scarlet; law, purple; medicine, green; philosophy, dark blue; science, yellow; architecture and the fine arts, brown; music, pink...
What passions flicker beneath Georgie's grey flannel mortarboard? As the reader meets him, he is preparing to go horseback riding. A shrewd old groom suggests a placid bay, but Georgie rejects his advice and takes a balky black gelding. Of course he is thrown. No student of women's-magazine prose can fail to understand the symbolic significance of this, and it has nothing to do with horseback riding. The groom (servants are as clever as presidential speechwriters in this sort of fiction) is Fate, and Georgie's pettish assertion of masculinity means that...
Along Oxford's narrow streets crowds cheered ''Good old Charlie!" In the Town Hall, Oxonians enthusiastically applauded the little man in mortarboard and scarlet gown, upstaging his seven fellow honorary degree winners, including U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk. But only after he had been handed his Doctor of Letters degree for having given "the greatest pleasure to so many people for so many years'' did British-born Comedian Charlie Chaplin, 73, relax in a toothy grin. "I would have needed a heart of cast iron not to be moved," said he. An exile from...
...divine plan for the good society," and energetic Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 33, mother of seven majoring in home economics, was delighted to receive her first honorary degree as Doctor of Humane Letters at the Benedictine St. Bernard College in Cullman, Ala. Done up in black gown and mortarboard, the Attorney General's wife then told 4,000 guests about the recent White House dinner for Nobel laureates. Everything was going along smoothly, recalled Ethel, until she overheard Chemist Linus Pauling saying: "Great minds are like movie actors or sports figures-they gather together like a clan. I recognize...