Word: undergraduatedom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other undulation at Yale was part of undergraduatedom's persistent demand for liberty. In the light of President Angell's observations it might have been interpreted as rebellion against "lock-stepping," or as an example of the things college men have time to get excited about when supplied with easy work and long vacations, or as an expression of "social maturity." In any case the recrudescence of Yale's war on compulsory chapel was no new phenomenon...
...Arbor, Mich, restless with the knowledge that something is agley in undergraduatedom, President Marion LeRoy Burton of Michigan University called to him Robert C. Angell of the Sociology Department. He sent Dr. Angell on a quest. Last week Dr. Angell returned, after talking with many another uneasy educator, and many young men and women, earnest no end and either utterly complacent or badly worried over themselves. Dr. Angell wrote a report: "College is no longer a place for those who wish to become cultured. It is a social prac- tice ground. Men and women come here to make friends...
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