cow college

Better by far you should have gone to cow colleges.

This guy had cow college written all over him.

He looked like an overage freshman calling on the dean of a cow college.

I've got letters out to half a dozen cow colleges; I'm just waiting until my contract expires.

O.K., I'm willing to admit that "educational quality" may need tweaking at this cow college.

Thereafter he referred to Michigan State as "Cow College" or "Behemoth University."

Flaunting this anachronism from the 'aggie' days was a proud response by students and alumni to outsider scorn of the university's 'cow college' history.

As for the University of Connecticut at Storrs, "they call us a cow college," said a spokesman, Walt McGowan.

(He sums himself up by describing his M.A. being in sociology from a "Cow College", and having dropped out of the space program.)

The SAT is most important to the students who are applying to the top universities, but the academics who provide the questions appear to come largely from cow colleges.

"We had a hard time convincing Casteen that agriculture is important to the university, that it got its start as a land-grant cow college," Mr. Carville said.

A guy like me, a guy from the stockyards that played himself a lot of very tough left end at a cow college and left his looks and education on the scoreboard.

I used to live in Ames - Ames, Iowa - where the anthrax strain was first developed, and I was reminded of the paradoxes of that cow college town.

A straight A student and relentless enthusiast at his movie-musical cow college, Joe graduates first in his class, winning friends and defeating, at least on one occasion, an obnoxious enemy.

Sir Isaac Newton, with a degree from a cow college such as mine, would wash bottles for Joe Thumbfingers--if Joe had a degree from a European university.

"Penn State would still be a cow college if it wasn't for Joe Paterno," Budd Thalman, who was the university's sports information director from 1986 until he retired in 2001, said by telephone on Friday.

But in interviews with a range of people close to the school - from students to alumni to business people who hire UConn graduates to the director of the faculty union - all say the old "cow college" in the state's rural northeast has come a long way in the last decade.

"Your Honor," Watson said next day to the village Justice, a well to do farmer and graduate, thirty years before, from a cow college, "since this Sol Witberg has seen fit to charge me with battery, following upon my charge of battery against him, I would suggest that both cases be lumped together.

She was sixteen and I was twenty and her father was a prof at the cow college I went to and I was invited to their house for dinner one Sunday night-and our first time happened on their living room sofa so fast it startled me, scared me some.)