[Magdalen] Fwd: LOST WORDS

[Marion Thompson]

'The Sweeetheart of Sigma Chi' mentions 'each sweet co-ed', if I 
remember rightly.  But that song, written in 1911, predates most of us 
by quite a margin.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 11/30/2016 5:17 PM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
> This reminds me that when I was at U Mich. there was one experimental
> "Co-ed dorm."  That meant one wing was for men and one for women--and you
> couldn't get from one to the other without going outside!  It was
> considered pretty out there for the times. I lived in a women's dorm, and
> men weren't allowed above the first floor, except on moving days when dads
> and brothers were allowed to help! I don't ever remember anyone referring
> to women as "co-eds," though.
> My senior year undergraduate women were allowed to live in apartments for
> the first time... I did!
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I never understood why the women were called co-eds and not the men;
>> weren't we all co-eds -- men and women attending the school together?
>> But I think I got to university some years after the term was popular.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> LOL.... a friend of mine who became a dad in his late 40s  is constantly
>>> talking to his away-at-college son about 'co-eds'..... I keep reminding
>> him
>>> that that word has probably gone the way of the words listed below!!
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Scott R. Knitter
>> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>>
>
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