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can anyone tell me what exactly is a "college husband"?

can anyone tell me what exactly is a college husband? I have heard this phrase used and I am not sure what this relationship is.

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Reply 1

rmhumphries

At a guess, I would say someone who married early?

Reply 2

Arieisit

Original post by rmhumphries

At a guess, I would say someone who married early?

That seems unlikely :rolleyes:

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Reply 3

rmhumphries

Original post by Arieisit

That seems unlikely :rolleyes:

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Why? As in someone who is a husband at college.

Got any better suggestions? :colonhash:

Reply 4

User990473

At Cambridge, it's someone who looks after freshers with you. You are the wife (if a girl) and the other 'parent' in the husband. The freshers you look after are your college children.

Reply 5

Theflyingbarney

The only place I've heard it used is in relation to Oxbridge. Here we run a 'family' system within colleges to help integrate freshers into the college, so you will have a pair or group of friends get 'college married' and then assigned to a group of freshers who are their 'college kids'. A 'college husband' is therefore a guy that you're college married to.

Naturally, this system gets quite complex and incest/polygamy are commonplace :tongue:

Reply 6

Arieisit

Original post by rmhumphries

Why? As in someone who is a husband at college.

Got any better suggestions? :colonhash:

Yep, what Occums Chainsaw said :smug:

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Reply 7

tazarooni89

If you're in the second year, you get a college husband/wife from your own year, and college sons or daughters from the year below. You and your "spouse" look after your "children" i.e. you help them settle into university.

Reply 8

rmhumphries

Original post by Arieisit

Yep, what Occums Chainsaw said :smug:

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Ah, but that was his suggestion, not yours :tongue:

You need to come up with something better than my suggestion!

Reply 9

Arieisit

Original post by rmhumphries

Ah, but that was his suggestion, not yours :tongue:

You need to come up with something better than my suggestion!

I had no suggestion but I just thought yours didn't make any sense. :ahee:

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Reply 10

rmhumphries

Original post by Arieisit

I had no suggestion but I just thought yours didn't make any sense. :ahee:

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It was the best I could come up with - and I still think it made a reasonable amount of sense! Anyway, we should most likely stop spamming this thread :tongue:

Reply 11

Malevolent

Have that here in Singapore as well. Two people from the second year act as someone to look after the first years that you get designated.