Word: senioritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capture and destroy these stores. Our forces, according to General Giap, War Minister of North Viet Nam, have exacted a toll of over 600,000 dead N.V.A. troops. The once well-trained and equipped N.V.A. troops have been reduced to a strictly second-rate force, according to senior U.S. commanders...
...Harvard Senior Tutor expressed concern that the nature of the shoplifters has changed. In past years, he said, they had usually been students with academic or family problems who seemed to be "calling out for help." This year, some students have explained their shoplifting by saying they "had heard the Coop was an 'easy mark,'" he said...
Until about five years ago, a student caught shoplifting would be automatic-ally severed by the University, but recently cases have been handled more leniently. According to one senior tutor, a student was severed this year for a combination of shoplifting and previous offenses, but often the punishment for a first offense is some kind of probation...
...least one case this year, according to Zavelle and two senior tutors, a student signed the statement of intent to steal and later denied that he had intended to shoplift. The student said he had forgotten to pay for the goods in question, and confessed because he had been emotionally upset and afraid that he would not be allowed to leave the room until he had signed the form...
...event, New Hampshire's senior senator, Norris Cotton, is to be heartily commended for refusing to succumb to the hysteria. This newspaper joins him in refusing to have on OUR consciences the "numberless thousands" of non-Communist Asians who will be "tortured and slaughtered" if the United States were to suddenly withdraw from South Vietnam. Nor will we accept responsibility for the betrayal of the brave young men who have served the cause of freedom- and even died for it- while asking no more in return than moral support from the American people...