Word: collegian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...papers that will be represented are: The Amherst Student, the Colgate Maroon, the Middlebury Campus, the Daily Princetonian, the Pennsylvanian, the Williams Record, the Yale Daily News, the Beacon of Rhode Island State College, the Brown Daily Herald, the Wesleyan Argus, the Dartmouth, the Penn State Collegian, the Cornell Daily Sun, and the Tech...
Approprintely, while "Heresy" is in the air, and the religious calm of the University is ruffled, Dr. Gray comes for a series of discussions at Phillips Brooks House. He puts his finger on exactly the phase of religion which can appeal to the inherently practical collegian. "What's the good of religion" is one of his subjects. "The Secret of Power" is another which should certainly attract the most indifferent...
...white-collar jobs and don't care for the sweat and the muck that are not dissociable with some kinds of hard work. Clerical employment appears congenial to them; the grind and the grief of mechanical engineering does not. At the bottom of Mr. Edison's gravamen against the collegian is his disinclination to work. He says a man is set for life at twenty-one, and if he is a dullard then, a dullard he will remain to the end of his days...
Education in any form cannot fail to interest the collegian, whether it be innovations in college curricula or efforts to educate nations. Of this latter sort a most interesting attempt is about to be made...
Fifty-six years ago the University authorities suppressed the "Collegian" after its third number, giving no warning and only the vaguest reasons. But "veritas nihil veretur", and two months later the "Advocate" appeared. Since that time, thanks to the vision of the past and present officers of the University, the right to speak has been recognized, and for teachers and students alike it has become established beyond question...