Word: collegian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does not pay, he will emerge sooner or later with enough knowledge to make up for the financial loss. There is, as some may hint, the difficulty that there are no courses here which a student would voluntarily attend. But that is a lie. We know several. Penn State Collegian...
...least to some people who get the opportunity of seeing and knowing the collegian of today, he is improving in some respects. It has been said that a century ago the college student was looked up to; fifty years later he was admired; twenty-five years ago he was respected; today he is tolerated...
That ought to give college men something to think about. The average collegian regards the summer holidays merely as a period of recreation and rarely thinks of them as the chance of a lifetime. Of course, a large number of students obtain work of various kinds during July, August and September, but the ordinary summer job has little or no educational value . . . If it is a case of necessity, any work is justified, but not otherwise. By carefully planning his vacation program almost any enterprising young man can do far better. He can fill the whole or part...
...three different times, in three separate classes, to arouse respect for my wide knowledge of current events by plagiarizing incidents re lated in TIME, and each time the professor has smilingly and somewhat devastatingly retorted, "Yes, I read about that in TIME." So you see the plight a poor collegian is in when he tries to put your magazine to such practical uses...
...average collegian nurses a desire to spend his summers abroad, going places and seeing things. Realizing this, the Canadian Government and the Canadian Pacific Railway have cooperated in inviting Oxford students to Canada in order that they may see England's American colony and also help harvest the Dominion's wheat crop...