Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...growing suspicion among those who have studied customs and manners during the past four or five years that the phenomenon known to the newspapers as the Social Whirl is gradually coming to rely upon the services of lower classmen for its masculine support. In the Junior and Senior years there comes to many undergraduates an awakening to the value of evenings spent in College and a coincident distrust of the glittering allurements of the ball room. The consequent open spaces in the ranks of the stags are slowly being filled by members of the Freshman class who too frequently baffled...
...chosen from the junior Class are the first group to be selected from that class by the scholastic society; they will remain the only members of Phi Beta Kappa from 1930 until that class becomes the Senior Class in the College. It is expected that the names of the new members will be announced Monday...
Definite plans for the election of Senior class officers were announced last night by A. B. Barlow '29, chairman of the Senior Class Nominating Committee, following the first meeting of that body...
Efforts are again on foot to bring home to the Senior the fact that he is soon to become an alumnus. The usual committee is getting up steam and all that is needed now is a few passengers. And there of course is the rub, men in college refuse of take much thought for the future. The present is too engrossing, the future, hazier perhaps that it ought to be, is vaguely understood to be full of various unpleasantnesses which will be sad enough when encountered. Most undergraduates have a shrewd suspicion that alumni associations exist for the purpose...
...Nephew of famed "Baseball Tsar" Landis, senior at Columbia. He entered the University when he was 15, wore short pants and black ribbed stockings through his Freshman year. His ambition to be a coxswain was frustrated by his mother who would not permit a nonswimming son on the Harlem River. His hair is usually tousled, his eyes sleepy, and great is his aptitude for poker. Last summer he won a Ford in a poker game. The Ford, however, would not run. His interest in baseball is only casual...