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...irony" This is the academic forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemolcks and the Seniors. Biologically, spiritually and humanly, it amounts to another prolonged dose of suicide. The myth of a liberal college is still supposed to persist despite this fact. Most of us shall leave Cambridge, sheepskin, honors, keys at also, we shall carry with us a smile for these hypocritic days: also a pretty little chip on our shoulders. If this be error and upon me proved . . . Irwin Rosen...
...college need never be asked. It was not for a bit of parchment inscribed in Latin, which probably he could not read. It was not for the privilege of writing "A.B." after his name, in that manner which often indicates, not only that he who does it owns a sheepskin, but also is himself, a "sheepshead...
...advantages to be gained from any workshop or technical laboratory of this sort have been proved too often to be open for dispute. To the ordinary man they are unknown, and of necessity must be; but to those who seek in college rather more than a piece of lettered sheepskin they offer opportunity for outside work and personal contact of almost inestimable value. The more this sympathetic study of greater and lesser men together can be encouraged, the higher will be the standard of scholarship and the greater will be the benefit to all concerned...
...Harvard as "the Muses' factory"; in a recent article Professor Grant Showerman of the University of Wisconsin laments that the term is no longer a joke. The American university of today "turns out" several hundred graduates annually, each guaranteed at so many credits and properly tagged with a sheepskin label. State efficiency experts formulate results upon the basis of the unit-hour,--defined as one hour of instruction for one semester by one professor to one student oblivious of the fact that the only unit in intellectual life...
...balancing awkward square caps on their heads. For its final six weeks of undergraduate existence, 1919 will for the first and last time assume a scholarly aspect. The sedate Seniors will stumble along in unfamiliar skirts, to the detriment of their own good humor, until they receive the coveted sheepskin. Thus will one of our oldest traditions be continued...