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Nigeria's students, in turn, can expect to be highly influential in their country's affairs. The much-needed skills they acquire will enable them to occupy positions of power much more rapidly than can the average collegian in this country. They will soon be making decisions of no small consequence to America...

Author: By David Abernethy, | Title: Students in Nigeria - The New Elite | 10/16/1958 | See Source »

...College and the varsity, making over 100 saves in the two games. He was almost single-handedly responsible for his team's win over the varsity in the consolation game, as he stopped at least four shots which would have eluded even the best of the rest of the collegian goaltenders...

Author: By James W. B. benkard, | Title: Sextet Faces Clarkson Tonight; Seeks to Avenge N.C.A.A. Loss | 12/17/1957 | See Source »

...William G. Peckham's leadership in 1866, for example, advocated some astonishingly radical doctrines: chapel should no longer be compulsory; Harvard should become a University; and there should be closer student-faculty relationships. As any fool could plainly see, Peckham and his cohorts publishing the Advocate (then called the Collegian) were revolutionaries...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: The Advocate: Danger Was Once Sweet | 2/1/1956 | See Source »

Although what the Collegian advocated was radical enough (for the time), it was perhaps more its attitude than its ideas that irked the college faculty. The newspaper not only criticized compulsory chapel, it did so through a mocking dialogue...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: The Advocate: Danger Was Once Sweet | 2/1/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Commager Advocates Increase In Tutorials, Fewer Lecturers | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

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