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...college in 1969 to be an undercover freshman. My speech would betray me as surely as my graying hair. Awesome is a word I would use to describe the Grand Canyon -- not the latest Jon Bon Jovi album, which is, like, totally awesome to my young classmates. Still, some - collegespeak can be surprisingly descriptive. "Yeah, it was great," one student says of his summer vacation in Paris. "Except I felt like a total Piltdown when I tried to order food." I know exactly what he means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lancaster, Pennsylvania College Days: Then and Now | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...love this question. In Harvardspeak, of course, I should answer "Currier." In normal collegespeak, though, I should answer "no," as I'm not in a fraternity. I think he means the latter. "No," I say. "Frats aren't very popular at Harvard...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: Dropping the H-Bomb | 9/14/1990 | See Source »

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