Word: seniorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...herald an interlocking of all colleges and their graduate schools, the Seven Year Plan has several disadvantages. Instead of escaping the restrictions of concentration, the student merely postpones them to a later, perhaps loss convenient time. Two degrees hang in the balance. The Seven Year student misses his Senior Year, perhaps the most important one for social and extra-curricular activities
...sailed for home. Eaton quickly followed, to promote his own plan for the conquest of Tripoli. He proposed to place on the throne of Tripoli a pusillanimous and vacillating ex-Pasha, Hamet Karamanli, whose bloodthirsty younger brother Yusuf reigned supreme after having murdered one relative and frightened his rabbity senior away...
...following summer, the student will be required to read from a list prepared by the department of his major. In the summer following his junior year the student can at the discretion of his department, read in his major field towards his departmental examination, or work on his senior essay or project...
...most unusual translation was that of Leading Stoker Walter Edwards, formerly of the Royal Navy, to Civil Lord of the Admiralty. There he will sit among the senior admirals. Before he was elected to Parliament (1942), Stoker Edwards was on the dangerous Murmansk convoy run. Next time he boards a battleship officially, he will be piped over the side, pass between saluting side boys...
...Harvard, Horatio was the smallest man (5 ft. 2) in the class of 1852, ranked eighth in his studies and wrote the class ode. As a senior, Horatio noted in his diary: "Am reading Moby Dick, and find it exciting. What a thrilling life the literary must be! ... Would it be desirable for me to take up writing as a life work? The satisfaction resulting from a beautiful story must be inspiring-a story that rouses readers to a new sense of the fine things of life." From that moment his ambition was fixed: he would write the great American...