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...turned him against religion (his 4-D draft status is for ministers and divinity students), was held on $5,000 bail. The charges: 1) presiding over an unchartered college (whose West Coast mother institutions were non existent); 2) calling himself a medical doctor; 3) calling his high-gear sheepskin tannery a school of medicine...
Black Mountain cannot give degrees because its bank account is not big enough to meet State requirements (it has no endowment); neither is its library (only 10,000 books). But the college, believing that no sheepskin can civilize a cultural wolf, is unconcerned about a degree's cash or glamour value. Black Mountain aims to give an education in the art of living. Its double emphasis is on the student's individuality and on the fact that he is inevitably a member of a social group. Thus, he may study whatever courses he pleases, but he must also...
...pressman boarded a 50-ft. cruiser and purred out to patrol Boston Harbor. Their "duty" was the water off the busy Navy Yard. Aboard their cruiser they stood eight-hour watches and took turns at catching a little sleep. In the cold dawn they shucked their blue work clothes, sheepskin coats, stocking caps and went back to their civilian jobs...
Ickes went on to college (University of Chicago), paying for himself almost entirely by odd-jobbery and teaching Eng lish to Scandinavians at a public-school night shift. His food for some months was "one 15? meal a day," and when he won his sheepskin in 1897 his clothes were "too shabby and worn" for him to go up to the platform for it. Newspapers helped to keep him warm in bed - the only period in his life when the Chicago Tribune helped him to sleep...
Aquatically, Harvard loses two stars via the sheepskin route. Captain Bill Drucker, who could always be counted on for one victory in the backstroke event and who always supplied a healthy lead in the medley event, graduates, as does Bus Curwen, breast stroker, who strokes and captains the Crimson crew in his spare time. Sprinter John Eusden, a Marine-to-be, will be around for a while...