Word: junior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the help of his longtime friend, Washington Lawyer Ed Wheeler, Graham hit on the virtually unknown junior Senator from Tennessee. But Estes Kefauver was reluctant. Graham gave him a long pep talk, finally exploded: "Damn it, Estes, don't you want to be Vice President?" That was the speech that launched Kefauver into his celebrated investigation and the deeper waters of U.S. politics. Since then, Graham, who shudders at the thought of Kefauver for President, has begun feeling like Frankenstein...
...exhibition of drawings and paintings by members of Eliot House will open Wednesday in the Junior Common Room. Since each of the artists is uncertain as to how his work will compare with the others in the exhibition, most of them have decided to remain anonymous, a member of the House Committee said yesterday...
...conjunction with the exhibition James Forbes, a professional artist in Boston, will give a talk on the basic techniques of painting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Junior Common Room...
Whether his program is either practical or desirable is nevertheless debatable. One suspects that the quality of education in local junior colleges would be so low as to make them virtually useless, and that if this were the case, their lack of prestige would make applications negligible. True, half our college students leave before graduating, but most of these people came thinking they wanted a degree, not an education, and abandoned the quest because education was too unpleasant. A junior college would seemingly lack even the prestige attraction, and so do little either to eliminate crowding or end educational dilution...
When Paul Richer, 21, walked into the dark brick junior high school in little (pop. 962) Riceville, Iowa last fall, he intended to throw everything he had into this first teaching job. A burly man with a Phi Beta Kappa key from the State University of Iowa, he had long wanted to teach. He had an irrepressible enthusiasm for literature and a head full of ideas on how to put his enthusiasm across. But no sooner had he completed his first few weeks than Paul Richer became the most controversial figure in town...