Word: juniority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Sounds and Sights of Chicago": a musical tour of the Windy City with Conductor Jean Martinon and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Junior Wells and his Chicago Blues Band, Ralph Shapey and the Contemporary Chamber Players, Folk Singer Jo Mapes and the Chicago Lyric Opera Ballet...
...used to hawk vegetables from a pushcart in Manhattan. Young Fred had grander ideas. He began hanging around brokerage board rooms when he was 14. Every dollar he made while in high school-some $500-he invested and promptly lost, but his infatuation with the stock market continued. A junior-year dropout from California State College, he amassed $10,000 in such small business ventures as building concrete aprons for driveways and operating a gas station, before going to work for Bache & Co. as an assistant broker at $217 a month in 1956. Ten years later, when he joined Shareholders...
...History Department, often berated for inflexibility and insensitivity to undergraduate interests, reversed its image this week by bravely abandoning junior generals. It was only last year that the Department voted to create the exams and the easy course would have been to use this years juniors as guinea pigs to measure the tests' effectiveness. But the department recognized that its experiment, heavily attacked in an HPC audit this fall, was not working and was willing the admit the exams were a mistake...
...justification for junior generals was always mysterious--they seemed at best a mechanical device for cutting down the number of seniors writing theses. The exams could have weakened junior tutorial, but with rumors of their impending abolition in the air, they probably did little harm this year as most tutors ignored them...
...that RUS is different. When students did bother to think about RGA it was with very little respect. They looked on it as a glorified social committee, which met only to hear reports on such inherently dull topics as NSA conventions, or to coordinate freshman week, or to plan junior parents' weekend...