Word: junior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been definitely decided that the Junior Dance will be held in the Harvard Union on March 15, W. D. Vogel '30, chairman of the dance committee, announced last night. A committee of eight has been picked, and further details will be gone over at a meeting to be held this afternoon. Contrary to precedent, there will be no boxes this year...
...honors along the History and Literature front, given by Mr. R. D. Howard in his article in the CRIMSON this morning, indicate which way the tide is turning. According to his figures, the majority of the Seniors now in the field were judged, after the divisional examination in their Junior year, potential honors men. The CRIMSON can reduce this statement to its lowest terms; exactly two-thirds of the Seniors in the field were rated as of distinction grade...
...these men are committed to try for a distinction degree through a process of specialized academic work in a limited field. For this work they may or may not be fitted; they may or may not desire to attempt it. But they have no choice. The examination passed in Junior year was not only a ticket to the honors arena; if dismissed from their minds their field as a whole. Without this examination, without dismissing their entire field to embrace specialization, they cannot receive a distinction degree...
...Junior divisional examination, then, sets up a false distinction for the specialist by eliminating the honors degree for the student with a broad interest in his field. More than this, it offers a convenient relief from extended general work to many who accept readily the label of "candidate for honors". What may seem, from the figures it can show, to be emancipation of the honors degrees, is really a narrowing device, which permits the passage of numbers that only cheapen the distinction degree. As a stricture on the fair application of the honors principle, the Junior divisional examination deserves...
William Dickerman Vogel '30 of New York City was named last night chairman of the Junior Dance Committee by G. C. Holbrook, Jr. '30, class president, after a conference with the Junior class officers. Vogel will appoint his own committee with the approval of the class officers...