Word: seniorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only upon completion of the Senior year and the acquisition of a degree will applicants become regular Ensigns...
...fatal slip into sentiment the Senior Controller of Programs of the British Broadcasting Corp. was fired last week. The Senior Controller, Basil Edward Nicolls, did not himself make the slip; it was made by Christopher Stone, a brother-in-law of Novelist Compton Mackenzie. It consisted in wishing the King of Italy a happy birthday by radio and adding: "I don't think any of us wish him anything but good, poor soul...
Last week, competing against 133 runners from 22 U.S. colleges, MacMitchell, just 21 and a senior at New York University, romped off with the Intercollegiate varsity (fivemile) cross-country championship for the third year in a row-a feat that had not been accomplished since Cornell's John Paul Jones did it in 1910-11-12. But MacMitchell's record over shadows the great Jones's. For he also won the Intercollegiate freshman event before competing in the varsity. In fact, Leslie MacMitchell has never been defeated in cross-country competition...
...year-old graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy was varsity football center in his senior year after two seasons on the squad, and was second-stiring first baseman on the baseball team...
With this decision one of the last cherished luxuries of the Senior year went out the window. Even if seat choices are rotated with this year's listing as a starting point, there is no chance for a Sophomore in Winthrop, which was third from the bottom, to get anything but worse seats for the next two years. If lots are drawn every year, the risk is even greater. A long-term law of averages is small consolation to a student who is only in a House for three years...