Word: junior
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...recent Mathematical Tripos examination, at Cambridge, two ladies obtained mathematical honors. One attained the standard of senior optime, and the other of junior optime...
RADICAL changes in the management of the inter-collegiate contests have been found necessary, and now the whole affair is placed in the hands of a Board of Regents, chosen annually by (1) the students in the Senior and Junior classes of the colleges represented, (2) the Faculties of those colleges, and (3) by a body of Fellows consisting of those college graduates who have taken prizes in the contests, of the judges and examiners, and of a number of honorary members, not exceeding twelve at any one time, chosen by the Fellows because of eminence in literature, science...
...score of Juniors are working for Junior Exhibition, and thirty Seniors for Commencement...
...suggestion of the Visiting Committee that themes should be required of Seniors and Freshmen as well as of Sophomores and Juniors is one which we sincerely hope will not be acted on. In order to eradicate the more obvious faults such as it is possible to attend to in exercises on which the instructor can bestow as little time as on college themes, the amount of work now required is sufficient. If the instructor could consider each theme carefully, and afterwards criticise it in connection with the writer, the case would be different, since then the field for correction would...
...mathematics under which Freshman classes have so long tottered should be considerably lessened. The Examining Committee have reported that Analytical Geometry is too difficult a study for that class, and that a further diminution of mathematics in the Freshman year would be advisable. The Committee also recommend that Junior Logic and Themes be introduced into the curriculum of the Freshman year, thus supplanting the for the most part painful and useless study of Triangles and Hyperbolae in favor of English studies which are indispensable to the education of even moderately informed persons. As required studies have been taken from...