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...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 »

...Kansas Borah had been something of a racy collegian, a lad of midnight escapades, and whisper it softly in Lyons, of the "flowing bowl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "From this Quartet" | 5/8/1936 | See Source »

...activities of the College's notoriously impotent football team hardly that. The student body is small, 473, serious-minded, mostly preprofessional, with no mind for such collegiate capers as hazing and freshman caps. Under much the same system introduced by President Hutchins at University of Chicago, a Hopkins collegian spends his first two years in broad cultural study, may then pursue a specialty to a Bachelor's Degree or shortcut a year by starting at once after his M. A. or Ph. D. Only Hopkins change which President Bowman has so far proposed is to give his undergraduates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Scholars Without Money | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

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