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...less than a century, the hasty funeral jobber became something like a theatrical producer, and with proper pride he set about rouging away his social stigma He changed his title from "undertaker" "mortician" and later to "funeral director." The "curbstone undertakers" were curbed by their colleagues, and sanitary standards were generally set up before the law got around to it. In some states it now takes three years-two in college and one in a school of "mortuary science''-to get an undertaker's diploma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death, American Plan | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

...Although the Supreme Court has interpreted security hearings as hiring interviews," he claimed that "dismissal from government service is a social stigma and limits opportunities for employment elsewhere...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: O'Brian Sees Decline Of Individual Freedom | 4/28/1955 | See Source »

...could deny that Claverly is now more appealing than it was several years ago as a local Siberia. Fortunately, the University has wiped away this stigma by filling Claverly with good tutors and high-ranking students. But even the fact that some of these students choose to remain in Claverly after the sophomore year can not hide the disadvantages of physical separation from the Houses. Despite several arrangements for breakfast at nearby Adams and Lowell, Eliot and Winthrop men must still make early morning treks to the river, and for other meals, all Clverly residents must go to their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merger on Mt. Auburn | 4/13/1955 | See Source »

...assigning good men to Claverly in the last two years, the Houses have successfully wiped out the stigma which used to be attached to all who lived in the hall," Henry V. Rosovsky, a Claverly tutor last year, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Large Percentage of Claverly Hall Students Will Not Move to Houses | 3/30/1955 | See Source »

...that the stigma is disappearing, Claverly's many advantages become evident," Zeph Stewart, a Claverly Hall tutor said "It is a quieter, pleasanter, more spacious place than any of the Houses," he argued. Stewart has been a Claverly resident for two years, this year at his own request...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Large Percentage of Claverly Hall Students Will Not Move to Houses | 3/30/1955 | See Source »

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