Word: junior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neighborly Baptist John D. Rockefeller Jr. had a surprise for the Roman Catholic Sisters of Mercy of the Union, who run two schools and a junior college in Tarrytown, N.Y., near the Rockefellers' Pocantico Hills estate. His gift...
...trend in recent years within the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature has threatened to turn the area from a field of concentration to one of domination. The course requirements are already among the stiffest in the College, and with the increasing pressure from the Junior Qualifying examination, students face the alternatives of inordinate cramming for the qualifying exam, or else spending three-fourths of their college career taking courses within their field...
...that the student's individual program principally determines the subject matter for which he is responsible, in practice the minimal requirements are so broad, five or six full courses before the Qualifying exam are barely sufficient for adequate preparation. Not only does this discourage electives in the Sophomore and Junior years, but it puts great emphasis on survey courses, which are often less satisfactory than more specialized studies...
...that transformation has been evident all fall. After an initial shock when for various personal reasons some key players left the squad, his team has enjoyed playing for him. He asks only that each player work his hardest, and he in turn works hard for them. Players on the junior varsity were given the opportunity this fall to run regular varsity plays and not to mimic plays of the Crimson's opposition each week...
...junior varsity, with a 2-0 record, will challenge an unscouted Pennsylvania JV. Both teams use the identical plays as their varsity teams, so the Crimson will have to face the unbalanced...