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Princeton rah-rah is the kind of spirit that sends a student to cocktail parties wearing short plants and knee-length orange-and-black socks, or to a football game in a tatooed jacket depicting a man potted in an ash-can, with the motto, "Sic semper parti pooperus...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Princeton: Hard Work and Rah-Rah | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...first students included an overlarge share of well-heeled Joe Colleges who wore bright yellow slickers, drove fast roadsters, drank corn liquor, and splurged their allowances on the coeds of the old Trinity campus. Some off-campus wags suggested that Duke change its motto from Eruditio et Religio to Erudiiio, Religio, et Tobacco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tobacco & Erudition | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...probably would have dribbled mascara onto my new blouse if Lisa hadn't made a simple statement, a marvelous motto for new models. She said: "You wouldn't be here if they didn't want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 10, 1949 | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...others as Eton and Harrow. Founded in 1394 by William of Wykeham, Lord Chancellor of England, the school has sailed through all the storms of church & state since the days of Richard II. By building character as well as learning into the make-up of its students (the school motto: "Manners maketh man"), Winchester has turned out a share of statesmen (including Sir Stafford Cripps) and military men (Field Marshal Earl Wavell) as well as literary lights (18th Century Poet Laureate William Whitehead), businessmen and barristers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Desire to Conform | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...House, built in 1900 simply as a students' religious center dedicated to "piety, charity, and hospitality," still respects its original motto. But it since has grown and enlarged itself until today it is the College's volunteer service center with nine committees carrying on day and night activities for both Harvard and the entire Boston community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Maps Big Social Service Year | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

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