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...seldom honor students or sons of Harvard. They are "C" students in the state universities and newer colleges. Not until these institutions follow the example of Wisconsin and begin to break up their huge classes will we have an opportunity to realize the intellectual possibilities of the first-generation collegian. H. G. Graham in the New Republic
Newspaper cartoonists for a decade have clothed the college undergraduate in raccoon-skin coat, baggy trousers, battered and blighted felt hat. Such were the sacerdotal vestments of the initiate "collegian." But last week, Princeton's witty and learned Dean Christian Gauss hailed the passing of the coonskin. Said he: "Undergraduates who wear coonskin coats now are not nearly so jaunty about it as they used to be; they are quite properly a little shamefaced. Their Eskimoish enduements are relics of the past age of 'collegiatism.' Students now wear them for lack of polo coats or Chesterfields...
...Harvard undergraduate than the similar caricatures of himself that he may have been surprised to find are taken seriously by people who ought to know better. And yet it is a strange fact that while no one would believe such tales about clerks or office boys, for the collegian there are scarcely any bounds of credibility...
...does not pay, he will emerge sooner or later with enough knowledge to make up for the financial loss. There is, as some may hint, the difficulty that there are no courses here which a student would voluntarily attend. But that is a lie. We know several. Penn State Collegian...
...least to some people who get the opportunity of seeing and knowing the collegian of today, he is improving in some respects. It has been said that a century ago the college student was looked up to; fifty years later he was admired; twenty-five years ago he was respected; today he is tolerated...