[Ads-l] _co-ed_: obsolete?

[Wilson Gray]

> It doesn't really say she was at Harvard - just a co-ed...

That's indeed true, but it's also true that had no so-called "co-eds," at
the time.

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 4:39 PM, Margaret Winters <mewinters at wayne.edu>
wrote:

> It doesn't really say she was at Harvard - just a co-ed...
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> MARGARET E WINTERS
> Former Provost
> Professor Emerita - French and Linguistics
> Wayne State University
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> Subject: _co-ed_: obsolete?
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> Narrator providing background WRT UC Santa Cruz and Cabrillo College:
>
> "The female students are called 'co-eds'."
>
> Well, of course. Everybody knows that "Betty Co-ed has lips of red for
> Harvard," even though, during the years in which the relevant song was
> popular, there were no co-eds at Harvard.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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