Word: senior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced yesterday that the football squad has lest the services of Ernie Sergeant, aggressive watch arm guard. On the advice of Harvard doctors, the diminutive Senior was forced to cut short his grid activities because of recurring headaches...
...their headmasters accept the new plan of provisional college admittance at the end of the Junior year, a lot of school boys will not have all the efforts of their senior year sucked towards the whirlpool of College Boards. Dean Gummere has long considered changes in Harvard's requirements. Too little opportunity has been granted the applicant to prepare for college, not merely for exams, and the introduction of the new Plan C would allow him to concentrate profitably on more advanced subjects and fields new to him as sociology and economics...
...Chicago's Bill De Correvont (now at Northwestern) whose football exploits were headlined from coast to coast when he wound up his career at Austin High with a total of 210 points in 1937, Tom Harmon nevertheless was not unnoticed by U. S. college football scouts. In his senior year he received offers from 16 colleges. But he chose Michigan because his high-school coach, Doug Kerr, was an old Wolverine...
Coach Dick Harlow was lavish in his praise of the improvement the Harvard squad had made. The Sophomores, of course, came in for a lion's share of the plandits, but it was Senior Tom Healey who was the apple of Dick's eye. Of Worcester Tom, he said, "the best game of tackle any Harvard boy has ever played...
...George. . . . Strengthen him that he may vanquish and overcome all his enemies, and finally after this life he may attain everlasting joy and felicity, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen." Later in the service the President's rector read a resolution of thanks to the King, signed by Senior Warden Roosevelt and the other vestrymen...