Word: colyum
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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Sometimes we are tempted to believe in the irony of Fate; especially when, in the intense pre-examination era; Christopher Morley sees fit to ask, in his "Colyum" in the Evening Post (New York), "Why is it that a man who went to Harvard or Yale never forgets it?" To the undergraduate it seems almost like adding insult to injury to put forth such a question at the present time; there are certain days and nights indelibly impressed on our memories--and the shadow of the Widow we have always with us. The waters of Lethe are many miles away...
...this is worth nothing, for it never could have happened in the blood-and-iron days of old--the 'News' prints in its colyum a ballade on that very matter (obstreperous Freshmen). And a ballade is a form of verse which persons who are entirely dead to the world of the mind simply cannot write...
...refers familiarly to "Bozzy", and has a library of finely bound books with uncut leaves; and he finds it good form to twit Steve Benet's "Wisdom". Nevertheless there is real intellectual awareness at Yale, as noted above; although we question whether the fact that the "News" conducts a colyum is any particular sign of such interest. That is, we would question if it would not be thought that we are jealous...