Word: seniors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although it would be overly optimistic to expect the practice of education to duplicate the theory, it seems reasonable that the one bear a faint resemblance to the other. In respect to the grading of senior honors theses, the difference between the theory and the practice is so vast as to be almost incredible and easily intolerable...
...comment is an unsatisfying substitute for the give and take of a first hand discussion and explanation. But somehow or other, the theory as well as the professor disappear every year at this time--professors have an annoying habit of going incommunicado both before and after they have graded senior honors theses...
...professor could legimately forget his duty to education and responsibility to his students, then this defensive attitude might be justified. A senior who has spent many months on his thesis deserves the benefit of discussing it with the grader. And if the senior is unhappy about his grade, then the professor, who believes he has graded the senior fairly, should be more than glad to explain the mark and answer the student's questions as best...
...Permanent Class Committee announced yesterday the appointment of Junior Ushers to serve at Senior Class Week from June 8 to 12. The 56 men appointed, three less than last year...
Curious, the senior sat down again. "It started last year," he continued, "when I was taking both Chem 20 and Chem 40. Labs every afternoon and after a while I began to imagine that I was an Erlenmeyer flask--Pyrex, you know, and shaped like this," he said as he waved his hands vaguely about...