[Ads-l] _co-ed_: obsolete?

[Margaret Winters]

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
Detroit, MI  48202

mewinters at wayne.edu



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Subject: _co-ed_: obsolete?

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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