Word: junior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marquand's topic of discussion will be "My First Five Years as a Writer" when he meets with all Kirkland House members on Wednesday in the Junior Common Room. Under Kirkland's program of "Writers in Residence," Marquand will reside in Kirkland for two weeks, and will meet with House men in small groups...
...suggestion in the Faculty that non-Honors junior tutorial be abolished brings a fear that a sizeable portion of the College will be further deprived of one of the most valuable parts of a Harvard education. Considering that tutorial was originally instituted for virtually all undergraduates, and that at one time it was predicted that tutorial would soon replace formal courses, such a proposal is a dismal illustration of the decline of tutorial...
Fortunately this suggestion was made informally, and has been countered by a proposal to keep and improve junior tutorial for non-Honors candidates. Accompanying this proposal, however, was the suggestion that Honors--and thus also tutorial--be made a "prize," to be won by surpassing several hurdles such as qualifying examinations...
Some of these suggestions are already being implemented, though there is little sign of any expansion in non-Honors. The History Department has instituted individual tutorial for Honors juniors, and Social Relations professors teach junior and senior tutorial in their department. The English Department, in recent broad revisions, has increased the importance of tutorial in deciding Honors degrees. In the same announcement, however, it restricted Honors candidacy--and individual tutorial--to students who pass three hurdles: an essay in the sophomore year, and general examinations in the junior and senior years...
...wealthy mining engineer and landowner, Gaillard was a precociously brilliant schoolboy, showed an early devotion to economics. After energetic wartime service in the resistance, he attended various international conferences as a financial expert, was elected to the Assembly (at 27) as a Radical Socialist in 1946, became a junior minister the next year. As Secretary of State to the Premier in 1953, he launched le plan Gaillard, a five-year program for atomic energy development. But he was little known to the French public until last summer, when as Finance Minister in the Bourges-Maunoury government, he courageously devalued...