Word: sheepskin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suffer from cold feet, use rubber boots lined with sheepskin and no socks...
...throw the course records wide open to the tutors and let them with much less effort on their part efficiently bombard the student with advertising? After all, it is difficult now, where virtuous monitors are prevalent, to make a "liberal" choice between a diploma from Harvard and a sheepskin from Wolff...
Most diplomas nowadays are in book form, sometimes with leather covers. Price range: 5? for an elementary school certificate, 25? for a high-school diploma, $1.50 for a college "sheepskin" (often paper), up to $10 for a de luxe doctor's or honorary degree...
...know or should know, you cannot ever get your sheepskin from Harvard until you know how to swim, and so you will be taught will nilly if you are among the five per cent who don't know how to master the brine when you get here. If you are aquatically minded, swimming in the gala Indoor Athletic Building pool will lure you sooner or later, and the Crimson swimming teams, under Coach Hall Ulen, are a pride of Harvard...
...yesterday afternoon. In fact there was some doubt in the minds of the spectators as they huddled together in a wet and unhappy group on the practice field whether or not the players realized that it was raining. Towards the end of the afternoon Dick Harlow asked for a sheepskin coat, but aside from that complete Harvard indifference to the elements was unbroken...