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* As evidenced by the page image, "College Widow" was the brand name for a line of cigars. Judging by it, the lady in question graced [[Ivy League|Harvard]] with her favors.

 

* Hilda "Sharpie" Corners from [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s novel ''[[The Number of the Beast]]'' is explicitly described as a college widow (although she protests that all of her paramours were age-appropriate). Given Heinlein's history of creating retro-flavored futures, this may be an instance of a deliberate use of an outdated trope to indicate that the book does not, as it initially seems, start [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] of ''our'' universe.

 

* ''[http://www.horntip.com/html/books_&_MSS/1950s/1950s_the_unofficial_college_song_book_%28PB%29/index.htm The Unoffical [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki> College Songbook]'', believed to have been compiled at the University of Wisconsin during the 1950s, includes a ditty entitled "Mimi, The College Widow", which starts:

{{quote|''Mimi the college widow, Queen of the University,

* In ''[[Spellcasting (series)|Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance]]'', Hillary Tickingclock becomes one when her husband dies. {{spoiler|This status ends when her husband is brought back from the dead at the end of the story}}. Of course, she had been regularly screwing the students (and anyone else who dropped by) before the professor died, {{spoiler|and continued doing so after he came back to life}}.

 

* The yearbook of the all-female Christian College of Columbia, Missouri (now the co-educational Columbia College) was called ''The College Widow'' for decades, at least as recently as 1958 and probably all the way until it went co-ed and renamed itself in 1970.