[Ads-l] _co-ed_: obsolete?

[Laurence Horn]

It also depends on the meaning of the word “at”, given Radcliffe.  Given grad students too, but maybe a female grad student didn’t count as a co-ed. Hard to recall.

LH


> On Apr 20, 2018, at 5:07 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> "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:
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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.
>> -Mark Twain
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