Word: senioritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purpose of the "Seminar on Negro Politics," associated with the Kennedy Institute, is to prompt senior members of Afro to give seminars in the fields in which they are writing their thesis. A reading list is drawn up of books which they feel have particularly shaped their thinking. Sapp says that the seminar "offers the younger student an opportunity both for dialogue with senior members and for recognizing the benefits of majoring in certain areas while he still has a number of options open...
...exert his influence upon officials who will be setting legislative policy on education. "To base grants on just a per-capita basis would be disastrous to Harvard," he says. "People must recognize that it costs more to educate a specialist or graduate student than an undergraduate, just as a senior is more expensive than a freshman...
...generation. At Harvard, however, political and social activism--expressed in a variety of service in the slums as well as anti-war demonstrations in the Cambridge streets--became an important class-wide phenomenon. Though there were outstanding individuals, one of the things which impressed Dean Monro about his last senior class at Harvard was the "breadth of involvement...
...class entered its junior and senior years, however, the possibility of war replaced Christmas recess as the major focus of attention. The Collegiate Anti-Militarism League debated hotly with the National Security League of Harvard in 1915 over whether the country should increase its military forces. In the fall of that year, the CRIMSON took a definite editorial stand favoring military preparedness, but the paper still printed protest letters from pacifists and neutralists...
...Evans and Randy Ralls might try to better their own personal marks of 6 ft. 6 in., but it would be blatantly egotistical for them to nourish the faintest hopes of defeating Oxford's Chris Pardee, the same lanky fellow who jumped 7 ft. as a Harvard senior last year...