Word: junior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professionally-oriented undergraduate society will hold its initial meeting Thursday evening, when the Social Relations Club gathers for the first time in the Lowell House Junior Common room at 7:30 o'clock...
...history was taught in the Texas public schools; pupils learned the lessons dutifully and soon forgot them. Professor Webb, who teaches at the University of Texas, was convinced that children can not only learn to like history; they can help to write it. Seven years ago he organized a Junior State Historical Association, to persuade high-school kids to discover history for themselves and to write up what they found just as professional historians...
Soon hundreds of Texas children were rifling desks at home for old letters, rummaging through attics and barns. They got oldtimers to tell them stories of the old days. One San Antonio high school helped preserve an old Mexican settlement, La Villita, around which San Antonio grew. A Junior Historian in Wichita Falls, Tex. made the fattest find of all: a pioneer settler's 82-volume diary...
...Junior Historians now have 88 chapters and 2,000 members in Texas. Six times a year, they publish a magazine, the Junior Historian, which is crammed with lore under such titles as "Uncle George Edgin's Recollections of Frontier Texas," "The First White Child Born in Texas," "Snakes and Whiskey" (the story of frontier medicine). Last week, its 43rd issue, written by and for the children, was in the works at Austin. Says Professor Webb proudly: "By gosh, we've done...
...Carpenter, who won the half-mile novice singles last spring, has moved up a notch to the junior singles, and L.W. Barroll, last spring's compromise champion, will race in the novice singles class...