Word: collegians
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Freshman. He will carry that green worsted bag, emblazoned with his initials, - which might as well be Hannibal's, for nobody can decipher them, - and a very little bag, containing his toothbrush. He will walk through the train twice. He knows every one will see that he is a collegian; but he forgets that every one will see what is equally obvious, - that he is a Freshman. We pardon him, for we confess to a slight thrill of pride when first a mucker called out after us, "Hi! look at the Harvard...
...Cornell Era comes to us in an entirely new dress, and changed throughout." So says the Tufts Collegian...
...Collegian, with a happy combination of injured dignity and scathing sarcasm, denounces the members of the Freshman class for their unanimous refusal to subscribe to the paper. After all, as there are only twenty-two Freshmen, it is hardly worth crying about...
...find, at the end of the fourth column, to mean the hearts of our countrymen; a sepulchre to which the author of the piece consigns not only the Father of his Country, - for whom it was originally invented, - but also all our other heroes. However, patriotism in a collegian is so rare a virtue that we will not criticise the form in which it comes...
...that it has great advantages, but is frightfully expensive. Our young lady friend, who has all her information from the Lampoon and from Snodkins, '80, thinks it must be a most charming, fascinating place; the men horribly bad (oh! Snodkins, '80) and delightful, and at once wishes herself a collegian. Such are some of the remarks we hear outside. College men, of course, have their own peculiar facon de panler. Of all the epithets that they use, the most remarkable is that of a "Hole." The meaning of this word has often puzzled me, as I have heard it from...