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...bite out of it signifying reduced taxes and clean fiscal living, has become his symbol. To retaliate, Church has become the consummate Idahoan in his television ads--the New Republic reports that his favorite pose of late is toting a shotgun while walking along a ranch fence in sheepskin jacket and cowboy...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: An III Wind Doth Blow | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...whom attends Harvard for a fraction of its 350-year history. In what amounts to little more than an overnight stay in Cambridge, no student preoccupied with the exigencies of academic life can afford to take on the institution. By the time he has learned the ropes, he has sheepskin in hand and is 'among the company of educated men and women...

Author: By Peter M. Engel, | Title: Student, Teach Thyself | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...Bowdoin committee awards the prize each year to two graduate students submitting excellent English essays on any subject. Winners receive a bronze medal, a sheepskin certificate...

Author: By Stephen R. Latham, | Title: News Shorts | 2/6/1980 | See Source »

Donald Woods, exiled South African journalist, will probably top off his year as a Nieman fellow with a sheepskin. Ingmar Bergman or Orson Welles, past near-misses for the Norton Lectures, may represent the cinematic world on the honorary list...

Author: By Coolidge K. Calhoun, | Title: Guesses Rife Over Honorary Degree Choices | 6/6/1979 | See Source »

Ebright will receive $1500, a sheepskin certificate and a Bowdoin bronze medal for his winning essay entitled. "An Endocrine Approach to Insect Control: Status and Outlook," Lucy White, spokesman for the University prize office, said yesterday...

Author: By John R. Gennari, | Title: Bowdoin Science Prize | 4/11/1979 | See Source »

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