Word: collegians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pros and cons of its observance aside, it seems unfortunate that college traditions of that type should be taken so seriously as to require abolishment. The presence of such social amenities would form a pleasant part of college life if sophistication were not swallowed so naively. When the collegian grows cynical about his cynicism, more distrustful of his irony, and more worldly than his worldliness he will live of being smart in the old way and take up shorts, roller skating, marbles, and go from house to house impishly ringing door-bells under the guise of a New Radical Movement...
...Many a collegian recollects similar sweepstakes: on length of sermons in chapel, on combinations of hymn numbers, etc., etc. Yale students in the undergraduate architecture course given by genial, pudgy, goateed Dean Everett Victor Meeks of the Yale School of Fine Arts once made use of his predilection for the expression tour de force (feat of strength) by getting up pools on its daily occurrence in his lectures...
...SWEETHEART (splendid, with Rodgers & Hart music); FINE & DANDY (Joe Cook & machines); GIRL CRAZY (splendid, with George & Ira Gershwin music); THE NEW YORKERS (splendid, with Cole Porter music); THREE'S A CROWD (Clifton Webb, Libby Holman, "Admiral" Fred Allen); You SAID IT (Funnyman Lou Holtz as a collegian...
...upon the basis of such study construct an activities schedule that will sell itself to the students so that their enthusiasm is genuinely aroused. Many will say this is a radical step, unprecedented in the annals of American collages. This, however, is no argument for--inaction. . . . The Detroit Collegian...
...women in this educational center. Our students, without knowing that the pictures which the movies give of American college life are distorted, flock to these films portraying college love and then go out and try to reproduce what they see there because they think that is what the modern collegian must do to be up to date. Our vice squad tells me that it is a common practice for students who intend to spend the night in illicit sex adventures first to attend a movie to sharpen their mood. That is why we have more trouble with rooming houses located...