To look upon a group photograph of the Collegers of fifty years ago brings many memories to the mind.
The student was now safe from the ordeal of examinations, and that the higher classes, including ten senior collegers and ten senior oppidans, contained some of the very worst scholars.
The collegers of recent years have done very fair work and carried off many distinctions at Cambridge.
There was never any racing between collegers and oppidans, and the collegers could only race between themselves.
Before 1869 the collegers had fours and sometimes an eight to themselves, but did not join the procession of the boats; and as they did not belong to the oppidan 'boats' they could not row in the eight of the school.
In 1864, however, Marsden, a colleger, rowed in the eight, though collegers were still excluded from the boats.
It comes out when `Collegers and Oppidans' are being played, either at football or cricket.
The boys on the foundation are called Collegers: the management of the College and the Collegers is a very complicated matter.
Any sixth or fifth form boy can fag an Oppidan underling: the collegers are exempted from this custom.
On the succeeding days the examinations of the collegers proceed regularly; then follows the election of new candidates, and the severe trial of those who stand for King's.
Now bear the busy Cads the new-lopt bough Of beech-tree to the dormitories, While active Collegers the foliage raise Against the chamber walls.
The Institution is governed by six directors, the three first Collegersand the three first Oppidans for the time being; and the subscribers are limited to the one hundred senior members of the school.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "collegers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
