Word: junior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department coaxed $1,517,850 from Congress to establish new R. O. T. C. units in high schools and colleges. Concentrating on high schools, it has made the greatest headway in Chicago, which today has some 30 junior units in public schools. But in a score of other places the War Department has been rebuffed. Last week it was smartly slapped by an 82-year-old woman in Kenosha...
Legion post petitioned the Board of Education to start a junior R. O. T. C. unit in Kenosha High School. A group of ministers quickly objected. Soon mass meetings and fierce arguments were in full swing. Advocates of R. O. T. C. claimed it developed character and physical fitness, its opponents that it bred militarism. The Legion and some civic & fraternal organizations lined up behind R. O. T. C., labor unions and churches lined up against it. The Board of Education lined up on the fence, finally asked the City Council to hold a city-wide referendum...
Five young men, selected for their promise of notable contribution to knowledge and thought, will join the Society of Fellows at Harvard University next September as Junior Fellows, devoting themselves to independent research and study for three years at the expense of the University...
...addition, Ivan A. Getting, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and David T. Griggs, of Chevy Chase, Md., who have been Junior Fellows for the past three years, have been reelected to a second term of three years. Getting's field is physics and astronomy, and Griggs' is geology and physics...
Charles L. Burwell '39 will head the Junior usher corps at Commencement, it was announced yesterday by Joseph P. Kennedy, '38 head of the Class Day Committee...