Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each Black Mountain student, with faculty advice, lays out his own course, takes comprehensive examinations when he thinks he is ready to go from the junior to the senior division, where he specializes in one field. To graduate (usually, but not necessarily, after four years), he must pass an examination, given by a professor from another college, in his major field. Although they need not go to classes, most students do. Classes are informal, are often held outdoors. Boys and girls wear shorts or jeans, smoke, call their teachers by their first names...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Senior John A. West Jr., like many another near-graduate, began to think about getting a job. Having failed to get one by ordinary methods, John West tried a novel scheme. He wrote a note, made 81 copies, slipped each copy into a bottle, mailed the bottles to 81 advertising agencies. His note: "Stranded! On an island in Cambridge, Mass., a college graduate-to-be in June, will work like hell for passage into port. Gold stored here with me (training in arts, sciences, business . . .). You're going ahead and I'm going your...
Class Day week will get under way this evening at ten o'clock as the Senior Class holds its annual dance at Lowell House. Duke Ellington will play, with songstress Ivy Anderson as a feature...
...call of the swivel chair and big buzzers with buttons once again proves more potent than the excitement of the courtroom or the harrowing drama of the country doctor's life as the Senior class plumps for business as an intended vocation over law and medicine...
Three-fourths of the graduating Senior class indicated their intended future profession in the Senior Album, and 207 students indicated business as their field as compared to 119 for law, and 96 for medicine...