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Over qualified?

OCTOBER • 1987
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Over qualified?
OCTOBER • 1987

The Chronicle of Higher Education unearthed this item in the classified ads of the Boston Globe:

"Dartmouth College invites applications for the position of Associate Investment Officer ... an MBA with 58 yrs. experience is desired."

The tabloid followed up with this comment, "And with 10 more yrs. experience, perhaps a promotion."

The men of Dartmouth College have, over time, developed as many variations on the vernacular verb 'to boot' as there are Eskimo nouns for snow." Outside Magazine, September 1987.