Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lowell House revived its pre-war tradition of senior book awards to its top men at High Table last night. In addition, Housemaster Elliott Perkins '23 presented Robert B. Clark '48 with a toy horn as "the man who has incited the biggest and beat riots in the small courtyard...
Every year along about that time, a Dilemma creeps up stealthily on members of the senior class and suddenly gooses them. This dilemma generally goes under the title of Whether Or Not To Stick Around For Graduation, but it isn't a true dilemma, for the odds are far from even. There aren't many seniors, for example, who conceive a violent hatred for Graduation; and there aren't many seniors who manage to find jobs that start before June 23. In short, most seniors would not only like to get their diplomas in person, but they are able...
...fact remains that only about half of the graduating class shows up for the week of unmitigated senior glory. This is a preposterous state of affairs. For one thing, it leads the outside world to suspect that a large body of the class gives way to sloth. Admittedly, a senior who plans to see his four years through to the end is going to have to hustle around a little getting tickets and hotel reservations for his relatives. Too, the whole affair isn't exactly for free...
First Officer Cyril Senior was at the conn, approaching Rio's broad, mountain-ringed harbor at about 15 knots when, without a hint of danger, came the sensation that strikes terror into every sailor's bones: a sharp, grinding noise forward. The 'Magdalena shuddered to a stop, hard aground on a reef so shoal that breakers creamed over...
This week, in Briton Hadden: A Biography of the Co-Founder of TIME (236 pp.,Farrar, Straus, $3), Busch, a first cousin of Hadden and now a LIFE senior writer, tells what manner of man Brit Hadden was. The informal portrait, lit with humor, shows a husky, mustached young man with intense grey eyes, enormous curiosity and vitality, and a huge capacity for work, play and horseplay. In his life & time (and the extravagant, turbulent '20s were all the time he had) his impact on U.S. journalism was as forceful...