Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year it is Harvard that is green and the Dartmouth attack red-hot; and the about-face entirely justifies Jaakko Mikkola's recent sleepless nights. The Crimson's upset at Hanover last spring demonstrated the superiority of an experienced Senior squad over even talented novices; but Saturday afternoon those Seniors will be in the grandstand, and the Comanche amateurs of last season will be running rings around Soldiers Field track...
Deferment from the draft will not be extended to college students after this June. This unpleasant fact must be recognized immediately by the University authorities. So far the administration has not acted upon this problem with the result that next year's crop of Seniors are shaking in their boots for fear that they will be wearing khaki rather than the cap and gown one year from now. Men called away by the army in the middle of their Senior year will find themselves in the position of Tantalus, so near a degree and yet so far away. In anticipation...
...Student Council suggested that special "conscription degrees be awarded all men in good standing after the mid-years of their Senior year." These degrees would be granted on the basis of less comprehensive general examinations than those now given at the end of the Senior year; there would be no honor degrees conferred upon these "war babies...
...service after completing three-fourths of their college work received diplomas at the Armistice. Today the problem is more complicated. Although a Junior would have plenty of time to re-adjust himself to study habits in preparation for final exams, after having spent a year in training, a Senior could obviously not prepare for generals in three months, much less write a thesis. Seniors, therefore, at the end of their army experience would have the unpleasant choice between the frying pan and the fire, between sweating through the examinations or waiting hopefully for a war diploma...
...with sizable earnings for its common stock ($1.92 a share in 1930). Its holdings (like Detroit Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric) are among the best in the U.S., should command a price of around twelve times North American's earnings. After the company pays off senior security holders, it hopes to have around $180,000,000 left...