Word: seniorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arts and Philosophy. These theses represented the sort of thing that the students had been debating during their four years in college. They were, in effect, challenges to the audience. Any graduate present could leap to his feet and challenge a thesis, and some member of the Senior Class had to take him on. Cortain theges were marked for a formal debate according to the recognized rules of logle, and until the classes got to be more than 25 in number, every member was assured of some part in the programme...
...Senior with a good voice and presence, and classical training (they are hard to find nowadays), delivers the Salutatory Oration *** Other Commencement Parts by selected Seniors follow. In the last century there was much jealousy and heart-burning over these Parts, and those who were not awarded them used to stage a mock commencement of their own, with ribald Parts, a few days before...
...Yellow Sea and passed into the trickiest part of our trip-the long jaunt across the water. We put on our Mae Wests and settled down for the run that would bring us around midnight over Japan's biggest iron and steel works, on Kyushu Island. The senior gunner, Sergeant Allen, asked the pilot for permission to blow the guns: there was a chattering rattle all round us as Allen and his mates tested their powerful armament...
Editor Webster insists that Mark Twain was grossly unfair to his father's memory. Twain attributed to the senior Webster the failure of Charles L. Webster & Co. (the once enormously successful house that published Twain and others...
...party of Manhattan's New School for Social Research (TIME, Oct. 4). One problem : many veterans have already had some higher education but, unless special plans are made for them, will be unable to go on to a degree. The New School announced one kind of help: a senior college in which veterans, with underclass credits, can get A.B.s through evening courses...