Word: junior
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Within a year the Yale faculty has reorganized its system of Electives, and on a plan much resembling the revision adopted here. In their junior year about half the studies are required, while at Princeton two-thirds are required. Among the junior studies common to both colleges are Logic and Physics, and also Psychology. In Yale, however, Logic comes before Psychology. In senior year there are but three hours a week of required work and twelve of elective, or only one fifth of the work required. Here, however, the proportion is nearly one-half required and a little over...
...Political Economy, with 106, Prof. Wheeler's Constitutional History of England, with 76. Senior German has 60. In the Latin electives, five in number, there were only three seniors in the winter term this year, and only ten seniors in all the Greek electives. In fact both senior and junior Greek electives there only enroll 33 men, about half of what Prof. Winans' junior Greek enrolls here. So senior and junior Latin has only 29 men, considerably less than either our senior or junior Latin...
...Yale Anglo-Saxon elective is frequented by one senior and one junior, but the Italian elective has one senior and two juniors, while Spanish has 18 men. In spite of Prof. Whitney's very great eminence in Sanskrit, only one student takes...
Next, a gentleman with a mild and inquiring cast of countenance, and an evident thirst for information attracted our attention. He was examining part of the apparatus and we were told was a junior of that kind commonly known in college parlance as a "dig," by which is meant one who never cuts chapel, lectures, or recitations, who has never received a summons, and to whom there is no unholy pleasure in "painting the town red," or "paralyzing the faculty." We were told to regard him carefully for the species is nearly extinct, and will soon...
...Junior Forensics, Mass., Dane