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...facilities. All rumors of universities where students have received their orders continue to break down upon investigation, and one can only be sure that any student who prematurely severs his connections here will be called, while the undergraduate returning after his exams might find that he has secured his sheepskin before he was fitted to a uniform. He might also find himself in training by the third week of February, but if the ERC is to go that soon, undergraduates will receive orders in ample time to break all university commitments without penalty...
Taking their Business School training in the best Pappy O'Daniel tradition, two lupine B-Schoolers have disguised their political ambitions under a sheepskin of comic strip humanitarianism in organizing their "Take the Wrinkles Out of Prune Face's Face" Committee, but so far their leveling best has been fruitless and they are no closer to their goal of election to the B-School Association...
...bagged the season's first typical winter German. His head was wrapped in a woman's shawl looted from some Russian peasant hut. A threadbare blanket with a hole cut in the middle served him as a poncho. The Red Army men, dressed in the standard winter sheepskin shubas (coats), fleece-lined caps and warm valenki (knee-high felt boots), seized the shivering Fritz as he stood sentry duty over a zigzag trench full of freezing Germans. All he could mumble was "holodno" (cold...
Many a degree holder looks upon his sheepskin as symbol of his success in mastering all the ideas of his profession. "According to the Gibbsian philosophy, 'he gets to thinking he is so goddam bright that it just paralyzes him.'" Franklin, Edison, the Wright Bros, held no degrees [except honorary] in their professions, "curiously enough...
...beginning of this century, the sheepskin practically guaranteed a job. But by 1930 there were less than half the jobs open to more than four times as many college men, and it became apparent that there was a large gap between the training that the humanities and social sciences offered, and the demand for that training in the world of business and industry. Brilliant men, with A.B.'s in Fine Arts, Romance Languages, History--any of the vast choices which were regarded as the bulwarks of the "liberal and humane tradition," had little to offer in the way of specialized...