[Ads-l] Why "Orangemen" ?

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Fred Shapiro
> The only other U.S. college nickname I have found in the OED
> pertains to my own employer: "Yalie."  This may have gotten in
> because of the popularity of Erich Segal's book _Love Story_.

[Begin OED excerpt]
Harvardian Noun
A student or graduate of Harvard University. (First citation 1702)
[End OED excerpt]

Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Yale are worthy.
Garson

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