When a Cornell man says wearily, "Will the Marines never come?" he means, "Something ought to be done. . . ."
When a West Pointer speaks of "growley" he is referring either to tomato catchup or to a blush.
Campus slang is fluid, capricious, varying from place to place. Last week the Columbia Spectator brought its readers briefly down to date, explaining that a complete campus slang dictionary "would probably fill a ponderous tome." At Miami University alone, it recalled, a survey by the English department revealed 103 terms for intoxication, 56 "ways of...
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