Word: senior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today is the last day for the filing of petitions to put the names of additional candidates on the ballots for the first Senior Election, and for the Junior Album Committee election, it was announced last night...
...report called attention to the fact that last year a comparatively large number of students received scholarship help for their first year of graduate work. This was taken as a reflection of "the feeling of many members of the Faculty that now and then a brilliant Senior gives more promise of becoming a productive scholar than many a graduate student who has acquired high grades in more advanced work...
...Roosevelt had Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes on her right and the duck-hunting senior Associate Justice, Willis Van. Devanter, at her left. All the other members of the Court except liberal Louis Dembitz Brandeis, who, at 80, goes to no evening functions, and liberal Harlan F. Stone, recuperating from a recent illness, were ranged along the board according to precedence. Senator Ashurst and Representative Summers, heads of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees, who before the week was out were to be handed a bill to dilute the power of the honored guests, were also at the table. Likewise...
...Marvin Swanson of Minneapolis: His third successive senior men's national amateur speed skating championship; at Petoskey, Mich...
...Donkin, a senior housemaster at Marbledown School, was far from wearied by his long years of welldoing, asked nothing more of fate than another decade or so in harness. An excellent pedagog, he had his little weaknesses, such as the daily crossword puzzle in the Times, and his old-bachelor devotion to the faded girl's photograph on his mantelpiece. (She had married a dashing artist, mothered four children, died.) His boys were devoted to Mr. Donkin, but Marbledown's new Headmaster was not, considered him an old-fashioned obstructionist nearly ready for the pruning knife. All unaware...