Word: sheepskins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motoring alone on a country road at night. Out upon the road ahead of you steps a man in old overalls and a sheepskin coat, with a flashlight and a gun. He signals, "Halt...
...householder nearest the scene refused to admit the rough-looking man in sheepskin and overalls who came pounding on the door to telephone for an ambulance. The householder sent for the ambulance himself. At the hospital, they said that Motorist Hanson might not live and would certainly be blind if he did, perhaps insane. A bullet had smashed into his right temple...
...concentrate on other subjects that happen to interest them more--and that in itself justifies them, if ever they needed justification; poor students take them because they are easy, and not infrequently interesting; and why not? As long as one hundred and twenty-four points are required for a sheepskin, as long as the time of both kinds of students is so completely taken up, just so long will snap courses fill a defendable want in the curricular mart...
...Yale Daily News last week suggested that the highest honor for graduating students on Commencement Day "will be the novel privilege of seeing the President of Yale University [Dr. James Rowland Angell]. Of course, those who do not receive the sheepskin will have completed their four years without resting eyes on this personage. This picture of conditions is a little overdrawn, but the fact remains that at no time during the college year does the President meet the student body...
...learning drawn there in the main by a common belief that college is a blessed institution for increasing money-making ability. And every year a similar multitude of young men and women are sent forth to their sordid battle from the gates of our colleges armed with a sheepskin, a bundle of new desires, a few common-place rules of economics, and with hardly a trace of originality among them--an army of pygmies fresh from the mold. The procession is a sufficient commentary upon the general state of college education...