Word: collegians
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Persuasive Logic. Unlike many campus radicals, Magaziner is a first-generation collegian, the grandson of Russian immigrants and the son of an office manager in a tomato-processing plant. He had no sooner arrived at Brown from Lawrence (N.Y.) High School than he began shaking up the university. As a freshman, he persuaded the university administration to abolish the unpopular food-contract system, which forced his classmates to pay an annual rate covering all meals. As a sophomore, he organized a seminar to study curriculum reform. It was so successful that he was paid $800 from the dean...
...addition to dominating the intercollegiate tournament, Nayar also won the national title, the Canadian Championship, and several others in India, his native country. He was the first collegian to capture the U.S. crown since Germain Glidden '36 did so 33 years ago. In this three varsity seasons, captain Nayar lost only one match against a college opponent...
Benka has used his bulk to put the 16 1b. shot farther than any previous Harvard man as well as farther than any other collegian in the East this year. This weekend, he will try to add the NCAA championship to the IC4A crown he successfully defended last Saturday...
Harvard's number two man, Larry Terrell, is probably the second best collegian in the country behind Nayar and is a likely winner this weekend. Harvard is thus almost guaranteed the first two matches, and must win three of the seven other contests to earn victory...
...dissection become a pitilessly reasoned undertaking. The aim was to recast the collegian's thought process almost as radically as military basic training recasts the civilian's. Sensibilities were not spared. "Sir, that may be logical, but it's not ethical," said a student to renowned Professor Joseph Beale. Replied Beale coldly: "Sir, I suggest that you transfer to the divinity school." That pre-World War II exchange is not much different from the give-and-take in today's Harvard Law lecture rooms. "Mr. Marcuss, what is constitutionally objectionable about this ordinance?" Professor Frank Michelman...