Word: collegian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tickets to the big annual game of their college, they may have to pay scalpers as much as $50 for a seat. They find themselves sitting next to people who have never been to any college but have secured six tickets at box office prices through some young collegian in their offices. They see college boys exploited in the newspapers, their size, heft, parentage, personalities analyzed. They grumble, only partly mollified by the knowledge that out of the huge gate receipts of football their colleges get funds to support other forms of athletics. The track team gets its carfare...
...times the college student has been singularly fortunate in the achievement of such preeminence. But of late years the feverish exploitation of gin, necking, and sartorial eccentricities has been to no avail against the far more adroit advertising of Masons, Elks and the Ku Klux Klan, and the unfortunate collegian is faced with the possibility of being recognized by the public in all his shame as a perfectly normal individual...
...some difficulty was encountered in procuring the collegiate type", the incident quite definitely shows that dry agents are similar, biologically at least, to the usual specie of human being. A similar step in a considerably better direction is for all the dry agents in the country to form a collegian jazz orchestra for the purpose of working their way to Europe on the Lousitania--which unfortunately has already been sunk...
...characterization of the French collegian, appearing elsewhere on these pages, strikes a note seriously critical of American universities. Inspiring is this picture of serious youth bent whole-heartedly over its books; decadent and inefficient in contrast appears America's counterpart. "The university-trained Frenchman is without peer in the world of education", ecstatically sings the Boston Post...
...importance of the conference, however, is not so much in the presence of older man and the projection of their opinions, but rather in the round-table discussions by the undergraduates on the affairs of the day. An expression of the collegian attitude by a half hundred delegates from all types of universities and schools must, to a large degree, be representative of the student attitude. Any discussion of Prohibition, and such a subject must necessarily be included in an analysis of modern American government and economics, will naturally focus attention on a large class of citizens, who have heretofore...