Word: sheepskin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lower his risk of SIDS. Make sure the mattress is firm, so if your child rolls onto his stomach, his face won't settle into the bed. Remove all fluffy pillows and stuffed animals from the crib. And never let your baby fall asleep on a sheepskin--even on his back. A number of infants have died when the sheepskin or other soft bedding wound up covering their faces. Apparently, the material can cause just enough of a pocket to form around the baby's face that the air inside it is exhausted of oxygen...
Diplomas are tangibly rather flimsy--a piece of paper with some calligraphy and seals (not the handsome sheepskin of old), oversized and suitable for framing--but symbolically they're worth their weight in gold, representing four years of blood, sweat and toil and, as our parents would hasten to point out, upwards of $120,000. What, if anything, our diplomas should actually symbolize beyond our own hard work is the question raised by the two Undergraduate Council bills recently addressed by Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis...
While there is now a good chance that Harvard graduates will be rewarded with a Latin sheepskin after four years of effort, it is equally probable that women's diplomas will remain different from their male counterparts...
Early retired and recently widowed, Albert Schmidt is at a lonely but attractive crossroads, contemplating his fate somewhere in Bridgehampton, Long Island, a summer sporting grounds for New York City's diverse meritocracy. Schmidt's own credentials are hard-earned: a sheepskin from Harvard and a partnership at a leading Manhattan law firm. He also belongs to a high caste: the Wasp establishment that first built the shingled 14-room "cottages" and exclusive country clubs of the Hamptons...
Bachrach, a former state senator from Watertown, is the only candidate running for governor who did not graduate from Harvard and is thus without the Crimson sheepskin...