Word: senior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Virginia, he said: "Until 1907, the Harvard Chapter elections were based entirely on student standings as evidenced in the records of the College office. At that time several changes were introduced. The custom of honoring specially eight men each year from the Junior Class was inaugurated. Twenty-two seniors were elected at the same time and provision was made for the electors to select later in the year five more students from the Senior Class whose mathematical records would not qualify them for consideration but whose eligibility was incontestable. As years went on this number increased from five...
From a list of 24 nominees proposed for the first group of Senior elections, nine officers were elected yesterday. The remaining officers of the class will be decided at the balloting to be held next Tuesday, for which nominations will be made at a meeting of the Senior Nominating Committee today...
...defeat Yale in six years, as well as being president of his class in its Freshman year, a stellar sprint man on the track team and president of the Student Council. His total of 210 votes for First Marshal is one of the largest ever recorded in a Senior Class election...
...does it feel," I asked him, "to have been selected Most Careful Greeter in the Senior Class of Harvard College...
...think the House Plan will make Careful Greeterism a subtler thing than ever before. Take me, for example, a Senior. I have fulfilled all my ambitions, academic and social. There is no one on whom I need to use the Chummy. But under the House plan even Seniors will be continually meeting professors. Useful levers to success, as the Chummy proved to be in the Freshman. Sophomore, and Junior years, need not be discarded. Variety and constant refurbishing: only these things can save Harvard from Keezerism--or friendliness. This tocsin is, of course, not for the herd. But, in Chaucer...