Word: collegian
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...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...
...With the disappearance of the isolated college and the reduction of American life to a more general common denominator, the modern undergraduate as a rule does not wish to be, much less to appear to be, a collegian. In his own opinion, he and the man of the world are as like as two peas. He abhors the collegiate; and if he is so, there is this extenuating circumstance in his favor: He is so in spite of himself...
...carried an ornamented green slicker, a golf bag and a suit case, covered with loyalty stickers. I was the last word in the hey-dey of the times. No sooner than I had walked through the fatal Sallyport on the morning of July first, I was no longer the collegian but the poor struggling Plebe...