[Ads-l] _co-ed_: obsolete?

[Dan Goncharoff]

"there were no co-eds at Harvard".

Not enrolled, perhaps...

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 4:36 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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