Word: collegien
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...easy to tell a lyceen from a collegien (college being the generic term now applied to the higher class of clerical schools) by his way of conducting himself in the presence of his elders," says the London Times. "The lyceen is a rougher fellow altogether. He lives in a sort of barracks, wears a uniform, counts only as a unit in a mass who are governed in a semi-military fashion, and gets little or no separate attention from his masters. Outside the college walls no moral restraint is put upon him at all. If a professor saw him smoking...
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