Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Remada in southern Tunisia the French army gave yet another demonstration of its irresponsibility. Angered at the destruction of a French jeep and the wounding of two Frenchmen by a land mine planted on Remada Airstrip, the local French commander promptly seized the senior Tunisian official in the area, held him incommunicado for twelve hours. This high-handed treatment of a government official in his own country provoked a new wave of Tunisian anger...
Though he hated to get up early enough for his 9 o'clock classes ("a bloody nuisance"), McNair sailed through his courses with astonishing ease. He has come out with top marks in French literature, made a "very satisfactory" record in all his other subjects. He became senior debater of the debating team ("You should see the other teams turn green when he starts talking," says one classmate), last week was organizing a meeting to improve student-professor relations. His classmates' "sir" has long since given way to just plain "John...
Wilton Junior-Senior High School...
...sophomores will have tutorial instruction--"in groups of not more than four or five"--while junior and senior Honors candidates will be given individual tutorial "as seems appropriate" for an hour a week. Juniors would also be required to write "at least one substantial essay." Seniors will write a thesis--"one of the most successful elements in our present educational practice." All junior and senior Honors candidates will take Tutorial for Credit as a fourth course...
...improve tutorial, the committee asserts, is also to improve the quality of instruction. The group asks the Faculty to devote more time to tutorial, and sees as a goal no less than 30 per cent of tutorial instruction given by senior Faculty members, and no more than 30 per cent given by teaching fellows. The remaining 40 per cent would be offered by instructors...