Word: senioritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expected, the selections for the U.S. Olympic team were the top three winners in each Olympic event--senior men, senior women, and senior pairs...
...evoke a radical response any more than a conservative one. Second, the poll was handed out in House dining halls during lunch and dinner of three consecutive days in mid-December. Each student, as he entered the dining hall, was asked whether or not he was a senior. If he said that he was, he was handed a poll and asked to fill it out. Only about ten or fifteen seniors refused to take the poll--the other 529 filled it out regardless of political penchant. Once they had completed the poll, their name was checked off a master list...
...fairness it is possible that pollsters became tired of asking everyone who walked into the dining halls whether he was a senior (it is extremely embarrassing to ask a tutor if he is a senior), and the poll may be a little more selective than the above would indicate. But not much...
News of the secret-and never-used -pact was broken, improbably enough, by the University of Michigan's campus newspaper, the Michigan Daily. Its editor, Senior Roger Rapoport, who had worked in the Wall Street Journal's Detroit bureau last summer, ran a seven-page draft of a mutual-aid agreement that had been prepared last July -two months before expiration of the Big Three's contracts with the United Auto Workers-by General Motors' cost-analysis department...
...they have received the support of 400 students who have signed petitions in Harvard and Radcliffe dining halls backing them and other resistors. Members of the Dunster House Senior Common Room have also signed a statement of support...