Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...open to the public, the meeting is under the direction of Endicott Peabody 2nd, second marshal of the Senior Class. Serving as honorary judge again this year will be Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory emeritus...
Only two junior members of the English Faculty have been lost to the war, but two more are expected to leave next month. Instead of replacing them, the senior members are increasing their teaching and tutorial burdens. The department only dropped six undergraduates at midyears, but more will be going as a result of the latest draft. Graduate students are expected to be even more severely...
...Pull" and if possible a couple of letters of recommendation go a long way in impressing the Senior Common Room, which decides on admissions, but it is not by any means necessary to have these or be a Groton graduate for entrance...
Students,--yes, even at Harvard College, are allowed to do altogether too much taking and too little giving out. They give out several times a year in examinations, when they (a few of them) write a thesis in their Senior year, and, most regularly of all, during the tutorial sessions. It is in tutorial that the great conglomerate of facts absorbed from semi-isolated courses is brought into relief, given perspective--by the student himself...
...numerous activities have won him the title of "busiest man in Harvard College," and include presidency of Phillips Brooks and the Senior Album, and membership in the recently-elected Permanent Class Committee...