Word: collegian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number contains as regular departments of the magazine "Comments on University News," edited by Edward S. Martin, Harvard '77, and a digest of the month's athletic news, edited by Walter Camp, Yale '80. The number contains "The Wreck," a poem by Albert Matthews, Harvard '82, and "An American Collegian at Oxford," by John Corbin...
...gratification to the vote of New York by which stringent provisions for civil service reform will be incorporated in the constitution, he told how he had come himself to take up the cause. He emphasized the fact that he had not approached it from the theoretical standpoint of a collegian, but from the practical standpoint of a member of the New York legislature. Several times during his address Mr. Roosevelt insisted earnestly on the practicability of such a reform. "Decent politics are practicable in this country," were his words...
...college man must feel that he would rather play against a graduate - a man who for four years had lived a college life, had become imbued with the college spirit, had learned to look at matters from the collegian's standpoint - than to play against a man who was not a graduate, but who perhaps had been induced to enter a university for a short season in order to take part in some sport in which he was proficient. The tendency to confound the use of the term professional with the idea of skilful through long years of practice...
...University. While he was in college he was very much esteemed, for besides being valedictorian of his class he was a member of the Institute of 1770, the Hasty Pudding, the Med Facs, the Porcellian Club, Grand Master of the Knights of the Square Table, and editor of the Collegian. In his work on the Collegian he had for a co-editor, Oliver Wendell Holmes. In after life he had a good deal to do with Mr. Holmes in editing a brochure entitled "Illustrations of the Athenian Gallery" and a collection of poems called "The Harbinger." His translation of Grun...
...would be better off in a locality where students and teachers might live in such close proximity that several hours might not, as now, be wasted daily by many students in the journey to and from the college. Again, the nature of American life makes peculiarly necessary for the collegian a strong force to counteract the incessant temptation to spread his energies over very various and often conflicting occupations...