Word: collegian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Indeed, the hostess house offers first aid to the collegian in several important matters. "Free facilities for pressing clothes" may not be much appreciated on the Gold Coast, which has figured so largely in Harvard legend, but many a student will be gladdened by the news that he need no longer dispose his trousers between the mattresses when he wraps the drapery of his couch about him. Moreover, "wives of the professors will mend clothes and sew on buttons free." Why wives? If daughters of the professors could be drafted for this activity, supported if need be by young society...
...proposed establishment, as a permanent institution, of the American University Union, recently described as "the most popular rendezvous for our college men abroad," must claim the support of any collegian fortunate enough to get Paris leave while serving overseas...
...once on a college diploma if the physical tests are met, but, lacking a college record, you must have a thorough knowledge of internal combustion engines, the difference between tractor and pusher types of airplanes, between four-cycle and two-cycle motors--all this, notwithstanding the fact that the collegian gets by regardless of whether he knows a motor from a wheel barrow. Boston Advertiser...
Yesterday the University Reserve Officers' Training Corps completed its first month of intensive training, during the course of which time over 1200 men, members of 54 eastern colleges as well as numerous non collegian men of New England, have been given military instruction in the primary duties of an infantry officer. The further elaborate plans which have been perfected for the progressive training of the next two months are being carried out according to schedule...
...idea of the present Advocate seal--Pegasus tethered to a dictionary--originated with Arthur Hale '80, and the design was drawn by Miss Ellen Day Hale. An earlier seal--the stork with the caducens--was designed by Lester W. Clark '75. The Advocate still retains the motto of the Collegian, "Dulce est periculum," as well as the original Advocate motto, "Veritas nihil veretur...