Word: sheepskins
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...last week the marine-and more than 500,000 other veterans and civilians -had earned a new kind of sheepskin called an "equivalency certificate." Equivalencies are the year-old idea of the American Council on Education, which saw the need of grading special cases with the right knowledge but not the right papers (e.g., the girl who studied with private tutors, the diplomat's son who went to school abroad). Many wanted the certificates to apply for college; more needed them to land jobs that called for high-school diplomas or a reasonable facsimile...
...Last week, when the University made the Princess an honorary Bachelor of Music, the chancellor felt moved to comment, implicitly, on honorary degrees in general and, explicitly, on the Princess's degree in particular. Had Princess Elizabeth gone to the University, he said, she would have won the sheepskin anyway-"by the somewhat more laborious process of examination...
When her name was called, Mary Margaret Truman smiled and walked out across Constitution Hall's big stage. But instead of handing her a sheepskin, George Washington University's President Cloyd Marvin beamed at the crowd and said: "I now hereby turn over my powers of conferring this degree to Harry S. Truman...
...whom they'll give the number one honorary sheepskin. He'll hop on his private B-29 in Tokyo and get here just in time," the chief declared. "Anyhow, even if he doesn't make it, he deserves the degree...
...Gamble, lamenting the fact that only 0.58 children were born to the average member of the Class of 1931 within nine years of snagging the sheepskin, sees more young Kallikaks than Jawn Harvards being born and finds that the rate of self-elimination among Harvard alumni is accelerating. Dr. Gamble does not mention the size of his own family...