Word: sheepskins
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...liberal arts or business administration graduate will find his sheepskin worth 15% less than if he had gone in for science. Even so, jobs as salesmen, accountants, beginners in banking and insurance are plentiful...
...That's a joke, son," quipped one of the editors of the Lampoon yesterday, and Kenny Delmar, better known to his kids as Senator Claghorn, burst into an uncontrollable spasm of gallus snapping. This worthy had come north from his New York publicity agent's office to accept the sheepskin of "Doctor of Lamphonery" in the Bow Direct aviary. Everybody thought it was a riot when it turned out to be a sheep, everybody but the sheep, that...
...teetotaling visitor's glass for repeated toasts. Just before the banquet, Monty had been given a caracul cap to replace his famed black beret, and a long grey dress overcoat of a Soviet marshal-reportedly lined with $8,000 worth of sables-to replace the dramatic white sheepskin he had worn to Moscow...
...Faculty meets to consider the College's incongruous distinction between "arts" and "sciences" in the award of the bachelor degree. It has frequently been suggested that a college education by any name would stand on its value as education, but upon whatever scrawlings appear on one's final sheepskin, and that the whole controversy is wasted energy. But a downy thistle can be as annoying as a full-grown bramble, especially when the whole field includes thorny questions of the value of the ancient languages, standards of admission requirements, and the theory of mental "discipline" generally...
...semi-annual tribal council's conclave at Window Rock, Ariz. went on without him. But high-heeled boots and sheepskin moccasins shuffled in & out of room 201 at nearby Fort Defiance's Government hospital. The man in the peppermint-candy pajamas knew the crisis facing his people. The reservation's 17 million arid, eroded and exhausted acres could not support its 55,000 people much longer. (Navajos, multiplying faster than whites, are the largest Indian nation...