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From now on, proclaimed the Trib, words of more than one syllable ending in "ff" will end simply in "f," e.g., distaf, sherif, tarif, midrif, bailif, mastif, rifraf. (One-syllable words like cuff, scoff and fluff will keep the "ff.") Also doomed to Trib extinction: the letters "ph" within a word, which will be replaced by "f," e.g., anglofobe, sofistry, sofomore, sofisticate, biografy. Magnanimously, the Trib granted "ph" the right to continue to exist at the start of words, e.g., philosofy, photog-rafer. Explained Amputator Astley-Cock: "It is a wise policy to recognize the universally valid principle of festina...
McLaughlin is president of the Homestake Mining Company and director of three other mining concerns. He received A. M. and Ph. D. degrees from the University in 1915 and 1917 and was professor of Mining Engineering here from 1925 to 1935. From 1930 to 1941, he was chairman of the Division of Geological Sciences...
Harris also warned of a "B.A. and Ph. D. proletariat' if the Commission's proposed 1960 enrollment of 4,600,000 materializes. The evidence shows that "a college graduate is not generally content with employment in any but the favored occupations, which could not absorb even one-quarter of the Commission's fifteen million junior college graduates of 1968 and one-tenth of the thirty to forty-five millions of four-year-college graduates...
...Wallesley alumna, Mrs. Alper took her Ph. D. at Harvard. She taught at Wellesley and Radcliffe before joining the faculty of the extension program here...
...announcement had the ring of a radio commercial. After completing the new courses, students would be able to "inquire like scientists, reason like philosophers, explain like historians, or imagine like poets and artists." Even if they had never been to college before, they could also sport a new degree-Ph.A., Associate of Philosophy...