Word: senior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mississippi, Pat Harrison's 2-to-1 majority over Martin Sennett ("Sure Mike") Conner was not only a triumph for Senator Harrison and the New Deal, but also a thoroughgoing rebuke to junior Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo, who had vented his spite against the senior Senator by campaigning for Conner. Theme of all 15 speakers at a Harrison victory feast in Jackson: "Now that we've licked Bilbo, we'll throw him into the Gulf four years from...
Almost the only man who refused to concede that Jimmy Byrnes's great victory, like Pat Harrison's, was a thumping endorsement for the New Deal was South Carolina's senior Senator Ellison D. Smith, no New Dealer. Sulked he: "There are so many elements involved that it is hard to interpret just what that expression means. The main thing in the whole business was South Carolina's loyalty even to the name of 'Democracy...
Five years ago this fall Harvard opened its new and magnificent set of Houses for the upperclassmen of the College and took the Yard from the Senior Class to hand it over to the Freshmen. At the time, it was done with fear and trembling and even Copey, Harvard's beloved Charles Townsend Copeland, looked, up on the invasion of the first-year class as the approach of doom. For with 1,000 lusty throats, as yet unmodulated by the traditions of the College, to bellow "Reinhart" the prospect was not too pleasant...
When the Class of 1940 enters Harvard College this fall the Class of 1937 will be rounding out the last of its four years under the House Plan. The Senior Class of this year will hold the distinction of having been the third class to go through Harvard under the House Plan...
...expected, in one way or another to absorb a good deal of learning and to benefit from the intimate intellectual contacts. At the same time every upperclassman carries a regular schedule of courses, expect that men out for honors can secure a reduction in the number during their Senior year...