Word: junior
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...library was well patronized yesterday, today being the day on which most of the junior and senior forensics...
...JUNIOR...
...present Harvard junior once remarked to us in all seriousness, 'that three-fourths of all the smart men in the country came from Harvard.' Shades of Minerva preserve us ere we fall! 'What shall we do to be saved! Perhaps we have been unfortunate, and run across the worst element of Harvard; at any rate, the above represents the tone and spirit of all our Harvard acquaintances. We might go on, but will not, for we have probably fallen into the ridiculous in speaking of the ridiculousness of others...
...junior exhibition prize at Yale was very curiously divided this year on the section line between Mr. Johnson and Mr. Leonard. Mr. Johnson is a Kentuckian, a son of Col. Stoddard Johnson, a prominent Democratic editor and politician, and a nephew of Gen. Albert Sydney Johnson, the Confederate general who fell at Shiloh. His piece was entitled "The Lost Cause," and was an eloquent, highly rhetorical, and truly Southern defence of his people. Mr. Leonard is a New Yorker, and chose for his subject "William Lloyd Garrison," his oration being a review of the same question from a Northern stand...
...Advocate states that a meeting of the junior class will be called next week to consider the question of a class supper...