Word: junior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colleges themselves are subject to increasing enrollment. Ambitions for a college education cannot be entirely satisfied by state universities; the junior college program, still in its infancy, is over-crowded and undermanned. Each fall a larger high school graduating class takes more college entrance examinations, and the number of able, qualified young men capable of college work mounts accordingly...
...Bliss, the Dumbarton Oaks collection has grown to a library of 50,000. The museum, itself, has been augmented by acquisitions of Byzantine coins, seals, and other relics, mostly purchased with funds from the Bliss endowment. The library and collection are the nucleus for the studies of Byzantine scholars, junior fellows on renewable appointments, resident profesors, who are members of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and visiting professors, mostly from the European centers of Byzantine studies. The administration of the Research Library is handled by the Trustees of the University, on whom falls the task of annually selecting...
Another recourse would be the creation of a great many more junior colleges than now exist. President emeritus Conant has advocated this plan, claiming that a considerable number of the people that now go to college are interested in nothing more than be gotten out of a two year course. Furthermore, about half of the nation's college students, he maintains, drop out after two years of study...
...first two solutions to the problem--the founding of new colleges or of junior colleges--are unfortunately inadequate, the expansionists claim. It would be impossible to start a college today and staff it with anything approaching the quality of faculty that Harvard now possesses. Harvard can offer a much better education than can any newborn college. Nor does an increase in junior colleges solve the problem; it is a four-year college degree that today's young men are seeking, whether or not they are interested in the course of study...
Then, either senior Dick Fisher or junior Ken Hathaway in left, junior Walt Stahura in center, senior Matt Botsford in right, senior Phil Haughey catching, and Repetto on the mound...