Word: junior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report also called attention to the "general tendency in the Economics Department to leave undergraduate teaching to the junior members of the staff." Galbraith agreed with the committee, but saw little cause, if any, for concern on this account. "Junior members are sometimes better teachers than senior men," he said...
Competing successfully with champagne and chorus girls, the University of Paris draws a few Harvard language concentrators for study each year. A junior year abroad can be valuable for two reasons: to learn more about la vie franchise by living it, and--more importantly--to use intellectual facilities unavailable in Cambridge...
...colleges, this non-profit group ships the students to France, guides them through the terrors of the metro, gives them a Parisian education, and then heads them toward home. But in performing it function, Sweet briar imposes upon the students expenses and shackles that make the program resemble a junior year at Sweet briar...
Harvard should not abandon the junior year program merely because of Sweet briar's ineffectiveness. Instead, it should set up a program of its own--not a vast system of advisers and special libraries, but a small-scale plan enabling highly qualified students to study abroad on their own. Detailed Harvard examinations on return would provide more of a check than Sweet briar's regulations, which treat all juniors as juveniles...
Faye Banter gets top billing in the show, and her portrayal of the mother (put them all together you've got MOTHER. . .) is engagingly domineering. Hers is the usual Junior-League-25-years-after sort of role, however, and her comic talents are barely exercised. Arthur Starch, as her son, alternately months and shouts his lines. And his boudoir transformation obviously seems as preposterous to him as the stilted lover scene through which the authors wring him in the first act. It is not his fault that the growing pains have a few audible creaks...