Word: juniority
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Junior theologues like Balaam...
...twenty men from the Senior and eight from the Junior Class, standing highest on the rank-list, have been elected members of the B K Society...
...this announcement has created appears to be widely spread, and not without some reason. It is thought that upper-class men do not have the advantage over lower-class men, in the assignment of rooms, which is rightly theirs. It would certainly seem no more than just that a Junior, for example, should, after occupying a room on the lower floor of Thayer for three years, have the privilege of at last securing a more desirable position in the college buildings. But under the present regulations he is excluded from any such privilege, and must take his chances...
...that the candidates examined at Yale were more poorly prepared"; and he furthermore adds, "A young man" [a single example only is cited] "was refused admission to the Sophomore class at Yale for deficiency of preparation. He went directly to Harvard College, offered himself as a candidate for the Junior class there, and was admitted." There is more truth, perhaps, in the first of these quotations than the author supposes. For how would he explain the notorious fact that nearly every year many candidates for admission to the Freshman class at Harvard who are rejected, apply to Yale, pass their...
...While in the subject of electricity, the sphere of communication was wittily termed sparking distance by a promising Junior." - College Courier...