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...examples of cultural state colleges in the west should suffice to convince them that they can perform no comparable service by the adoption of an A.B. degree. Such a course would tend to swell the growing number of the educated unemployed who have long since discovered that a sheepskin may cover a shorn lamb...
...seemed to be young swaggerers, spunky fellows with bright red handkerchiefs knotted "carelessly" about their throats, each supplied with a gleaming Mauser rifle. Sweethearts sewed on rebel shoulders a knot of green, red and yellow ribbons. Gaucho rebels, former "cowboys," swung over their shoulders brilliantly dyed saddle blankets of sheepskin. Marching and singing, the would-be-fighters were frequently beset by females, plied with edibles...
...article in the June issue of the Good Housekeeping magazine entitled "Sheepskin Blues." Bruce Barton discusses that ever present question of what shall the college graduate do after graduation. For once it seems this topic is intelligently treated and the usual gloomy outlook that most of our pessimistic magazine writers inject in a discussion of this kind is lacking...
...take graduation as a sort of release from the serious things in life and who now go out to occupy some small job, and he also passes over those who have prepared for the break with some careful thinking. The group he discusses is that one that has the "sheepskin blues". It is the bigger group and contains many of the prominent and popular men of the class. It contains those who "are blue because they do not know what they want to do, and bluest when they discover that their unpreparedness is a handicap in the location...
...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...