Word: junior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Korman, "there was a girl with no looks but a college education and hasn't she made a success of herself?" Mr. Vallee assured her that a college education was an advantage in any profession. The result was that Heloise agreed to go back to Drake as a junior last autumn. At the station she broke down and wept...
Twice married Mr. Dykstra has a daughter Elizabeth, 24, a stepson Franz, 16, who is a junior at the University School of Cincinnati, a 2-year-old grandson named Stephen Dykstra Posey. Last week Cedric Parker of Madison's Capital Times, a Progressive organ which remorselessly hounded glib, dressy Republican Frank, interviewed Mr. Dykstra and found that "he does not wear spats, carries no cane, and doesn't care if his trousers are in press...
...Warner Bros, junior cinemusical company has a picnic with the slapdash, rapid lines, but there is nothing slapdash about the glittering specialties or the skilful, engaging music. Top song and top production number: Too Marvelous for Words. Swing High, Swing Low (Paramount) reveals the effects of outrageous fortune's slings and arrows upon the soul of a sensitive hot-trumpet player. Mustered out of the U. S. Army in Panama, Skid Johnson (Fred MacMurray) is not much better than a guttersnipe when he meets Maggie King (Carole Lombard), a stranded dancer working as a manicurist. Things begin to improve...
...most promising young intellects are kept out of college because of financial means, is being grappled with by Harvard's bold and promising venture, the Conant Scholarships. President Hutchins of Chicago makes his contribution in the proposed "shock-absorber" institution of the four-year senior high school-junior college combination, after which those really fitted for higher education would be permitted to acquire it. Starting with the small colleges of the East, a movement is now on to stiffen the requirements for admission. Throughout the West there is the inclination toward a return to discipline and an abandonment...
Good conversation, wit and wisdom issuing pleasantly from the artful tongue is a thing that Sophomore, Junior, and Senior years place ever-increasing value on, and is the essence and tradition of Dunster. You may not know, even at the end of Sophomore year before whose fire you'll sit or who will sit round yours, for friendships seem to form and develop slowly here; but somehow you will be sitting in a small group about a fire before you leave, with pipes going and a tapped keg on the window sill, following with your mind the tenuous movements...