Word: collegians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average American collegian is "spoon-fed" in more ways than one, said Commager. Not only do we feed them "in the form of lectures and textbooks and outlines" but also "we provide our students with their sports and games, wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars...
...writing is on the whole wooden and filled with cliches. There is a conspicuous lack of a copy desk. Not only do a few individual articles directly contradict one another, but there is far too much editorialization, particularly in the articles about undergraduate organizations. And words such as ensconced, collegian, frosh, and soph, should never, ever, see print. A few articles, however, showed a real attempt to get away from the rigid confines imposed by the nature of a yearbook. Those on the chess and bridge clubs and (but for one inexcusable line) the Band are quite good. One interesting...
...collegian who gives Thomson the most competition is his teammate Tom Henderson. Henderson beat him last week in the weight throw against Cornell, but then Thompson had been ill all week...
...social world this stately graduate school influence has bred an anti-collegian air which has become characteristic of Harvard. The fate of the All-College Weekend is perhaps the best illustration. The tradition of social independence which inclined the undergraduate to small cocktail parties rather than beer-blasts forced this experiment in "mass, collectivist entertainment" to close its doors after losing over $500. The College just seemed to have no interest in this sort of amusement after the initial weekend two years ago. It just seemed to crumble from inertia...
...university lifts the college student out of his collegian environment and thrusts him into an educated community. It is a Harvard phenomena that no man is known as "The Big Man on Campus" because there is no central Harvard campus. But it is characteristic of Harvard that the main building of the college is also the main building of the university