Word: seniorities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...senior year, Bush was tapped to join the Skull and Bones, one of Yale's most prestigious secret societies, to which his father had belonged...
...Yale administration proved more conciliatory to the student protesters than their colleagues elsewhere. In Bush's senior year, the dress code was abolished and Yale moved to a pass-fail grading system. For the first time, public high school graduates outnumbered prep school graduates at Yale. And University Chaplain William Sloane Coffin publicly denounced the Vietnam War in debates with William F. Buckley...
Coffin, who has since apologized for the remark but says he does not remember making it, admits the campus was largely inhospitable to young men like Bush by the time he was a senior...
Nonetheless, one professor of his says he was "dumbfounded" to learn that Bush had been in his U.S. history senior seminar...
After his senior year, according to the Washington Post, Bush was denied admittance to the University of Texas law school, despite his in-state status...