Word: junior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Traditional Class Night ceremonies are on the docket tonight in Radcliffe Yard. According to custom, seniors march up Radcliffe Yard from Long-mencement marching and seating. fellow Hall to Agassiz House under an arch of Chinese lanterns held by junior ushers...
...Bolles, the Harvard coach, has today what is probably his best varsity crew since he came to Harvard. Since there aren't many crews in the country that beat Harvard any year, that is saying a good deal. This year neither the varsity, junior varsity, nor the freshman crews have been beaten going into this last race. A victory over Yale over the four mile route--and victories over Yale have become habitual for the soft spoken Bolles who has yet to drop a varsity encounter to the Blue--will establish Harvard as the first crew in the East...
...Junior Varsity 150-Pound Crew...
...Army tried to explain what had happened. A junior officer in G-2 ("Some damn fool of a nincompoop," said new Army Secretary Gordon Gray) had sent an unfavorable report on Clapp to Frankfurt without clearing it with his superiors. Apparently his only sources of information were newspaper reports of TVA-hating Senator Kenneth McKellar's shabby attack on Clapp when Clapp was made head of TVA; the Senate, disregarding old Spoilsman McKellar, had confirmed Clapp. The explanation didn't satisfy Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver. Said he: "This business of smearing the names of good citizens...
...Smith was one of the Ministry of Truth's most trusted forgers; he had always flung himself heart & soul into the falsification of government statistics. And Party-Member Julia was outwardly so goodthinkful (naturally orthodox) that, after a brilliant girlhood in the Spies, she became active in the Junior Anti-Sex League and was snapped up by Pornosec, a subsection of the government Fiction Department that ground out happy-making pornography for the masses. In short, the grim, grey London Times could not have been referring to Winston and Julia when it snorted contemptuously: "Old-thinkers unbellyfeel Ingsoc...