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Getting more specific, the new journal concludes that "Norwegian moccasins is the latest report from Harvard," and "At Harvard they wear brilliant Argyle socks, or the plain color ribs." Button-down shirts and gray flannels get the expected not also as part of the typical Cambridge costume...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Mag Tells How to Be Collegiate | 1/24/1948 | See Source »

...Push-Button Learning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1948 | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...world in which we live. To reject the so-called "impractical" subjects in our high schools is to deny our cultural heritage. . . . It is tantamount to admitting . . . that learning, as far as we in America are concerned, is nothing more than a quick method for discovering which button to push and when to push...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1948 | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

Hanuahvuhd, ch?" chuckled the corner druggist, and the youth in the grey flannels and button-down shirt winced visably. "Too good for the old state...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: South, Mid-West, West Coast Distort University | 12/10/1947 | See Source »

Jack Smith Show (Fri. 7:15 p.m., CBS). Guest: Nanette Fabray, of Broadway's High Button Shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Dec. 8, 1947 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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