Word: sheepskins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some years now since the Roving Reporter received his sheepskin from a New England college, shed a tear or two on the chapel steps and departed either to set the world on fire or discover that its principal ingredient was asbestos...
...nose taxied out upon the field of the naval air station at Washington, D. C. Forty gallons of gasoline were in its tank. In the cockpit was no Icarus. Instead was an Apollo wearing no triple woolen under wear ? merely ordinary clothing cased ty a furlined flying suit, sheepskin boots, fur helmet, fur mittens, a mask with an oxy gen tube (his nostrils were plugged so that he must breathe through his mouth) and a pair of goggles with tiny holes in them so that he might see when they be came frosted. He was Lieut. Apollo Soucek...
Such a time is the present moment. Take for example merely two things--Divisional Examinations and the Pops Concerts. Is there any really good reason why these should come at the same time so that the conscientious seeker after a sheepskin will be bound to his books, and only those will be able to luxuriate in an atmosphere of near beer, pretzels and music whose consciences have become muscle-bound from much wrestling or who have taken precautions to provide themselves with umbrellas for protection against the examinatory torrent...
...possible, a cultured individual, rather than a more or less perfect example of the plumber's art, which should, when the right tap is turned and the right chain pulled react in the customary and appropriate fashion. Of course, that will not provide him with a sheepskin, and he shall probably have to content himself for some time with goat hide...
...spectacle of a college graduate launching against the professional champion of the wrestling world the flying tackle which he learned on a college football field, cheered on by a packed house of hardened followers of professional sport, the theory that no holder of a sheepskin diploma is a popular success in the professional sports arena seems to come a cropper...