Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain others. Every one knows, for example, that the Philosophy and English Departments are more difficult than the Social Ethics and Anthropology Departments. Not only are the majority of courses within the "snap" departments easy, but worse still, these departments are more lenient than the other departments in recommending seniors for a degree. Herein lies the evil of the system. Conferring a degree upon one senior and refusing to confer a degree upon another means that the authorities of Harvard College believe that the one senior has obtained a better education than the other senior. But with the existing inequalities...
...announcement was made this spring that following the resignation of Kershaw as coach of soccer, the position had been awarded to J. F. Carr '28, captain of the eleven in his Senior year. Carr was coach of the Freshman team last fall which enjoyed a very successful season though losing to a powerful Blue aggregation...
Applications for these first two houses will be accepted only from members of the existing Sophomore. Junior and Senior classes. It is hoped that after they have once been established there will be as little possible shifting of quarters between the various units, as one of the purposes of establishing the Houses is to give the undergraduate the opportunity of living in the same building for three years...
...been suggested, "why not place seniors together and develop your class as a whole at that time?" The answer here is that educationally this is inadvisable as the houses cover the period of a man's preparation for his divisional examinations at the end of the Senior Year, the climax of his scholastic career. To cut off the Senior from his tutors at the most critical time would be unwise. To transfer divisional examinations from the Senior to the Junior year would create an anti climax...
Furthermore class spirit as such would be extremely difficult to construct after all members of the Senior class have been split up into definite and isolated groups. A Freshman is generally eager to make friends; he enlarges his circle of acquaintance beyond that of his past schoolmates to that of his class as a whole. The Senior on the other hand, especially if he has lived with the same group for three years is not as ready to meet the boy from across the hall. He has his friends, interests, and he has divisional examinations to keep his mind occupied...