Word: senior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is another consideration less evident at first sight. A significant result of the first two contests has been the relations that have been established between the offices of the Times and the leaders in the examinations. Last year the winner of the competition, a Princeton senior, secured a permanent position on the editorial board and in many other cases contacts were made that should prove productive in later years...
...Senior hockey team defeated the Sophomore sextet 5 to 4 in the opening game of the class hockey series held on the Charlesbank rinks yesterday afternoon. S. O. Dexter '29 and J. K. Whiting '29 led the Senior offense, while A. L. Serino '31 was the outstanding player of the Sophomore group, scoring three points for his team...
...Senior Executive Committee announced last night that the time limit for ticket applications for the First Annual Military Dance, to be given March 8th at the Hotel Copley Plaza, has been extended to Wednesday, February 20th...
...more intelligent plan appears the one which allows a candidate to take a distinction degree with or without specialized work, at his own option. To obtain honors in a general field an outstanding record in a written examination at the end of Senior year, an oral examination, and a thesis is imperative. A candidate for honors degrees who still wishes to examine a portion of his field more closely will simply devote part of his final year to research under the guidance of his tutor. He needs no pass vised by authority to put him across this line of concentration...
Neither the theory of giving the honors candidate an examination in his Junior year, nor that of delaying it until his Senior year represents a distinct educational program. Each is a different side of the same coin. No question of individual freedom is involved; this is determined by release from tutorial and course restriction, and the opportunities are equally good under either plan. The difference is one of degree, rather than of kind; whether a course which dismisses half its subject after a hurried two years is wiser than one which carries general and specific along together, to the profit...