Word: junior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-endowed Junior Statesman School (the brain child of Montezuma's smart headmaster, Ernest Andrew Rogers) is no ordinary civics course but a working experiment in grown-up democratic politics. Back in their own high schools, Montezuma's moppet statesmen organize chapters along the lines of their State government, pitch into local politics when and where they can. Typical project: In Long Beach, Junior Statesmen originated and pushed through the fingerprinting of the whole town...
...qualify as Junior Commandos, New York's 16-and 17-year-olds are going to have to run a quarter-mile in 62 seconds; a half-mile in two minutes, 30 seconds; a mile in six minutes. They will also have to meet certain standards in gymnastics and be able to carry their own weight 100 yards. This wind & muscle-building program will be compulsory...
Some youngsters, not yet in high school, got the jump on the older boys by forming their own Junior Commandos, influenced by the comic strips' "Colonel Orphan Annie," currently leading her commandos against enemy agents. At Detroit's Boys Club playground more than 100 youngsters, dressed in shorts, sneakers and tin helmets, and carrying wooden guns, went through commando drill...
...perfect setup. Three thousand Summer School-incited Harvard men were the market, and the Wellesley Freshman Register was the commodity. The middle man, a crafty Junior, was set to make his first million...
Members of the 48-man group will be selected from the Junior Class, on the basis of their "keen interest in Yale and her athletic "institutions." A plan for distribution of membership has been drawn up whereby representatives of all major publications, undergraduate organizations, and fraternities, will serve in addition to sports managers captains...