Word: junior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When English Teacher George N. Allen quit his job at Brooklyn's slum-sick John Marshall Junior High School and unmasked himself as a crusading New York World Telegram & Sun reporter (TIME, Nov. 24), he sweetened his exposé with the promise that the $490 he had earned teaching would be turned over to a teachers' retirement fund. But the New York City Board of Education refused to act like a grateful teacher. Last week, while Allen continued to churn out his lively eyewitnesser under such headlines as "HEY, TEACH . . ." is SIGNAL FOR BEDLAM and SLOW PUPILS CHEATED...
Tackle: Jim Marshall, 20, Ohio State; 6 ft. 3 in., 222 lbs. Junior. Major: physical education. Fine blocker, fast-reacting on defense, has speed enough to outrun many backs, performed an incredible feat for a lineman against Purdue by running for two touchdowns with a blocked punt and an intercepted pass; a probable high pro choice next year...
Guard: Roger Duone ("Zeke") Smith, 21, Auburn; 6 ft. 2 in., 215 lbs. Junior. Major: education. Alert, fast, hard charger; eyed as another good pro linebacker, considered by some scouts the best lineman...
Through last year, history honors candidates got tested at the end of junior year on two years' tutorial work. Although the new system involves an additional examination, the student will be tested while the sophomore tutorial material is fresher in his mind. Furthermore, sophomore tutorial is no longer connected at all in contents with junior tutorial, as used to be the case when junior tutorial covered the philosophy of history and sophomore tutorial treated the great historians. Now, after studying a year in one's general field for junior tutorial, one tends to forget about Ranke and Bede from...
...system may, however, have one unfortunate result. Students who might want to switch into History late take their exams on sophomore tutorial in either of the next two years. The Department need not worry about qualifying such students for honors junior tutorial; assumedly, if they qualified for honors in their former field at the end of sophomore year, they could handle honors work in history. If the department thus offered make-up exams on sophomore tutorial once a term or so, late concentrators could make up the work at their leisure...