Word: seniorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first crop in is oats. Oats cannot tolerate hot weather. As fast as the ground dries in March, it must be ploughed-usually in a race between rains. Up at 4 or half-past, Dale Kuester turns on the lights of his Massey-Harris "101" Senior tractor, rockets out to the gang plough and buzzes off for a working day that often ends, as it began, in darkness. Last March Dale Kuester ploughed 20 acres of oat land in 18 hours-something like making a 500-mile automobile trip in ten hours. By the second week in April the Kuesters...
Juniors of Group IV will continue tutorial in small groups, meeting once a week; while Senior honors candidates will have full individual instruction preparatory to writing their theses, for credit under Social Relations 10 if desired...
Before the war, most houses ran their elections on the basis of class. That is, the house committees were composed of a fixed number of representatives from the sophomore, junior, and senior classes. In some houses, such as Adams, the prospective juniors and seniors already on the committee were required to stand for re-election each spring. In other houses, such as Lowell, members were elected permanently. In the matter of these re-elections, there was always the question of continuity of membership. Usually, the elections were sufficiently staggered, however, so that there were enough old members remaining...
...honor to serve the Student Council as senior chairman of its Committee on Tenure and Curriculum. In that year, as in the present, the Student Council saw in the continued decline of the tutorial system a major threat to the liberal content of Harvard education...
...repeated suggestion that tutorial be limited to senior honors candidates or to men in group III and higher. The implication here is that men of lower academic standing do not fully deserve or will not greatly benefit from tutorial conferences. Yet it very frequently happens that a man of vigorous and original mind is unable to adapt himself to the method of education by canned-lectures and hour quizzes. It is for just such a man that the tutorial system of face-to-face discussion may constitute genuine education...