Word: collegian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have us believe. But mere trickery and deception is not particularly appealing, nor even the subtle performance of back-patting and hand-shaking. A little more high comedy and a little less low farce would provide a program more attractive to the often slightly aesthetic, and occasionally almost intellectual collegian...
...ball and heaved it 47 feet 7½ inches, thereby setting a national championship mark for the A. A. U. Last week Paddy, white-haired and portly, tried again in the A. A. U. meet in Manhattan. The best he could get was a third place. But a young collegian, a mere junior at Princeton, Ralph Hills, stepped forward and heaved the leaden ball 47 feet 11½ inches, setting a new National A. A. U. mark. Three feet and half an inch still remains to the world's mark. But Hills is young. He may yet grow...
...both possible and desirable, as we assume it to be, that every collegian should be instructed in the essentials of history, science, art and philosophy, then there must be a deliberate stiffening of requirements, and at least an attempt at a selection and synthesis which will condense within the scope of these requirements a survey of the field of knowledge. The student who had accomplished such a survey would no longer be a stranger in great regions of the world of matter and spirit, as so many half-educated people are to-day; nor would be necessarily have missed...
...held in New York City on Saturday, December 29th, at 12 o'clock, at Our Cooperative Cafeteria, 54 Irving Place. Norman Thomas, Harry W. Laidler and Scott Nearing will participate in the discussion, but the main part of the conference will be a symposium by students on "The Collegian--Facing the Present Crisis...
This conference at Star Island will be the first of its kind in America to discuss the vital problems of religion and life from the point of view of the liberal collegian, and is a part of the Leagues of Youth movement which at present is sweeping European colleges...