Word: junior
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Thursday night the Cornell seniors gave a successful performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The proceeds went to the establishment of a junior oratorical prize fund...
...prescribed course which members of '84, and earlier classes, pursued, was Rhetoric and six themes in the sophomore year, six themes and four short forensics in the junior, and four similar forensics in the senior year. There was also an opportunity for those who could write very well to elect English V, a special course in composition, for one or two years...
...present freshmen have Rhetoric, and practice in writing. Twelve themes are prescribed for the sophomore year, and six for the junior year. In addition, the course in forensics has been much changed. Ten lectures in argumentative composition are given, while both seniors and juniors are required to write a forensic, a thesis, and to pass an examination in writing essays off-hand. Moreover, English XII has been established for those who are unable to take English V; and in both of these elective courses daily themes are required. So in the composition courses there is but little to find fault...
...recent discussion between a junior and sophomore as to whether New York or Boston was founded first, the junior calmly asserted that the latter city was settled in "thirteen hundred and something." Being reminded that the continent was not discovered until 1492, he wilted...
...urged that if many men had the same topic to write upon, as would necessarily happen, they would get some one else to write for them; but this is really a superficial objection, for such a thing is even now possible in such courses as sophomore and junior themes. There are not many men who would be guilty of such an act, and in any case such men are not the ones who are much benefited by their sojourn at Harvard, nor the ones whom the college wishes to attract. The real burden would come on the instructors, especially...