Word: collegian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dive out the window, however. Last spring five Harvard men clad in checkered shorts and examination blue books jumped off the John Weeks Memorial Bridge. They were arrested for disturbing the peace. No Collegian, since Henry Wadsworth Longfellow meditated aqueous suicide from the same point as a professor of Modern Languages here in the 1860's, had ever considered river bathing...
Like many another collegian, Charles Ross Greening* had been diverted from his major study (art) at Washington State College to one of his minors (military science). He flew on the Tokyo raid with Doolittle, and was the man who invented the expendable 20? bombsight which Doolittle used instead of the secret (and invaluable) Norden. Afterwards, Greening flew 27 missions over Africa and Italy. After the 27th, in July 1943, he was shot down. He just missed parachuting into the crater of Vesuvius...
...hours later, when all the clubbing and drubbing was over, the college boys had bowed to the clubmen. The flashiest player on the field was not a collegian or a graduate, but 17-year-old Billy Hooper, who looked out of place among his nine older Mount Washington teammates, but was right at home in the tussling. Hooper made half of his team's goals, scored the point that broke a tie 2½ minutes before the game's end. Score: Mount Washington 6, Johns Hopkins...
Edward C. Cole, of the Yale Drama School, will teach production and management to the enrolled collegian actors. Other instructors from the Yale school are expected to join the faculty...
Amid the gale of oratory on free speech and freedom of the press, that followed, Stearns conceived the idea of starting a new paper, under an anonymous but non-Collegian editorship, to serve as the Advocate of the people. His literary aides in the infant enterprise were Charles S. Gage '67, genial versifier and the most popular man in his class, and William G. Peckham '67, a precocious lad who had entered the College at the age of fourteen...