Word: junior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a growing suspicion among those who have studied customs and manners during the past four or five years that the phenomenon known to the newspapers as the Social Whirl is gradually coming to rely upon the services of lower classmen for its masculine support. In the Junior and Senior years there comes to many undergraduates an awakening to the value of evenings spent in College and a coincident distrust of the glittering allurements of the ball room. The consequent open spaces in the ranks of the stags are slowly being filled by members of the Freshman class...
...chosen from the junior Class are the first group to be selected from that class by the scholastic society; they will remain the only members of Phi Beta Kappa from 1930 until that class becomes the Senior Class in the College. It is expected that the names of the new members will be announced Monday...
With the selection of the first eight juniors to be honored with membership in the society comes the election of 32 Seniors, the first election taking in members of the Class of 1929 this fall. Twenty-five more Seniors will be made members of Phi Beta Kappa in the spring, but the full quota from the Junior Class will be chosen tonight. The basis of selection will be made purely on grades recorded in the deans' office...
...Lawyer Reed's son to speak at the dedication. Smart son of a smart father, and smart namesake of a smart granduncle, David A. Reed, 47, has many a distinction. He is a close friend of Andrew W. Mellon. He is, at the moment, both senior and junior U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania, because Philadelphia's Vare has not yet been admitted to the U. S. Senate...
...stands the Harvard Senior class team will play the Yale academic '29 team while the Harvard Sophomore eleven will meet the Junior Class aggregation of the Yale Sheffield Scientific School. As the Senior and Sophomore teams at Harvard are also very evenly matched playing two games comes as a satisfactory solution for both colleges...