Word: senior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...numerals and has complete charge of the Harvard-Yale Freshman game this November 14 at New Haven. But besides him, four others are chosen who alone are eligible for the Sophomore competition. Three men are chosen from these to be Varsity, Junior Varsity and Freshman managers in their Senior year. Thus, in the direct run of football managing, only those who take part in their Freshman competition can gain one of the final offices...
...speakers, introduced by Delmar Leighton '19, dean of Freshmen, were Richard M. Gummere, chairman of Admissions, Willard Learoyd Sperry, chairman of the Board of Preachers to the University, and Thomas Nelson Perkins '91, senior member of the Corporation...
...though Yale looks older, Harvard is older; that Harvard families are the older families. These differences are obvious, Mr. Hale thinks, because they are superficial. Deep-down, he assures us, Harvard and Yale are the same. Fundamental are the campus credos, "that a fraternity may be childish, but a Senior Society or an Eating Club is sacred . . . that whoever interests himself in progressivism or radicalism probably hasn't bathed for weeks, that a Phi Beta Kappa winner is either a major trickster or a greasy grind, and no compromise about it; that a prof under forty-five is a fellow...
...Every Junior and Senior not on the Dean's List is expected to attend his last College exercise before and his first College exercise after each holiday and recess, but a Junior or a Senior in good standing will not necessarily be placed on probation for cutting before and after a recess or a holiday, although such cuts will weigh heavily against him if his record becomes unsatisfactory...
...anxious to know how seriously we take our studies, as whether we have a good time. Is this just a mechanical brain factory, or does it prepare us for life, as you know it ought? Look around you. You have heard it said that almost one third of the Senior Class now graduates with honors. But do we look like pedants and goggle-eyed aesthetes? We still have plenty of good times, but even in our gayer moments, we're not as bad as you often hear. One of our most "horrible" pastimes is throwing water from our windows...