Word: junior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity went through a moderately heavy scrimmage yesterday afternoon, displaying an effective defense against Brown plays operated by the junior varsity and freshman squads...
Coach Lloyd Jordan was dissatisfied with the team's performance on offense, however, feeling that it was not adequately tested by the defending freshmen and junior varsity. Several varsity men broke away in this phase of the scrimmage. Jordan would not comment on whether Walt Stahura would start on Saturday...
Bundy came to Harvard as Junior Fellow in Government in September 1941. While here he decided to run as the Republican machine candidate for a Boston City Council seat from the safe Back Bay district "to gain laboratory-experience in politics," as he puts it. He lost by 35 votes. When war broke out in December, he tried to volunteer for military service, but was turned down because he was underweight and his eyes were weak. Disappointed in his wish to see combat, he was recruited by an old family friend, Archibald MacLeish, to serve with Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Charles...
...Dozen Stars. Taylor's plan involved putting a full two years of college on TV. With School Superintendent Benjamin Willis, he decided to work through the city's four junior colleges, whose teachers would start out by giving four freshman courses over WTTW, which is owned by the nonprofit Chicago Educational Association. Viewers could take one course or all four, could work for credit (and an Associate of Arts degree) or merely audit. The response was greater than even the most optimistic officials anticipated. When the nation's first TV college began this fall...
...junior college faculties and WTTW's staff worked all summer preparing for their opening. For the first experimental year, they settled on four subjects: English, biology, political and social science. Though the academic content was left entirely to the academics, each course was treated as a "show," with its own producer and technical staff. Out of more than 30 faculty volunteers, the colleges and TVmen picked twelve who seemed both able and telegenic enough to go over. Then, after a series of auditions, they chose each show's "star." But behind the four stars is a staff...