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Word: collegian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yardlings are urged to come and meet the girls they will want to go out with for the next four years. There will be no definite date assignments, and every Harvard man will get a chance to meet more than one collegian. Most of the Radcliffe Freshman class will be in the turnout, and Wellesley will be heavily represented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Union's Dance Is Scheduled for Friday Night in Memorial Hall | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...nine riotous years the late Huey Long's Louisiana State University seemed the answer to a collegian's dream. Upon his students the Kingfish lavished two luxurious athletic stadia, a huge gymnasium, a mammoth coliseum, the longest U. S. swimming pool, 100 grand pianos, the best football team and the biggest band that money could buy. Fabulous were the parties and the football junkets he threw for L. S. U. students. Long, his L. S. U. president, James Monroe Smith, his hand-picked trustees and his legislators thrust scholarships upon them (last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kickback | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...this is not to imply that there are too many, or that any one of them does not have a useful function. The more the happier. Today's collegian is an amazingly introspective creature who will talk at dull length in Bedroom sessions about sex and himself. But when it comes to considering or taking a stand on those political issues which are hid very life hi is namby-pamby and lackadaisical. Europe is trotting merrily to hell, but there is hardly a student in Harvard who does nit read the headlines with merely idle curiosity or regard the eventuality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO CAMELOT WE GO | 4/11/1939 | See Source »

...further explanation Mr. DeMille's first description of the land of golden opportunity for the Hollywood-minded collegian paled somewhat. Mr. DeMille is after the bright young men all right but he won't train 'em. He expects the colleges to do that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies Want Bright Young Men, but Colleges Must Give Practical Training | 1/19/1938 | See Source »

...transit gloria mundi," or so is the bubble of the Cambridge collegian pricked by the witty caustic observer from Smith who next chooses Yale as the place and the Yale man as the subject...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/6/1937 | See Source »

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