Word: junior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in Toronto 27 years ago, Dave Kerr started to skate as soon as he could toddle, played organized hockey (for boys up to 15) when he was 9, was a star player in the Ontario Junior Hockey Association when he was 12. He got his high-school education (and an "expense account") by playing hockey at Iroquois Falls for the Abitibi Paper Co., which made a practice of rounding up the best available amateurs to keep its employes in good temper during a long Canadian winter. He went to McGill University while playing for the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association...
...inescapable conclusion from this glorification of juvenilia was that the younger you are, the better child art you are likely to produce. At about junior high-school age, or sixth grade, many of the child painters had turned imitative, muddying the pure well of crudity with inhibited attempts to be artistic. But under this age, the hugely scrawled and brightly colored pictures done by little boys & girls showed a splashing freedom of imagery and sometimes a direct seizure of character. They also showed frequent resemblance to the art of those moderns who distort for the sake of design...
...Friday afternoon I began to realize that this weekend was going to be no easy matter. I was flattered indeed that the Junior Prom Committee had decided to hold their party here because I offered them Elbow Room, which they could not find anyplace else. But I also had to be in training for the Yale-Harvard Swimming meet Saturday night, which Yale seems to be pretty nervous about. And still they rely on my foundations to be steady after my one party of the year! How would I feel having people splashing around in my stomach after no sleep...
Captain Vernon Struck will be the fourth starter closing his basketball playing days here and will be at his usual guard spot along with Ulysses Lupien, the only Junior on the starting five. John Dampeer and Dick Wills, Senior replacements, will doubtlessly see action tonight in place of either Struck or Lupien...
...HARVARD SKIPPER. Bobby Green, who will captain the Harvard University Football team in 1938, shown after his election at the Dillon house at Cambridge, Mass. He succeeds the famous Clint Frank as captain of the Crimson and is in his junior year...