Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first and last brush with baseball as a player. He caught a ball on his nose, and quit. At the University of Pennsylvania he shunned athletics to become the complete politician. "I believe he was the first man ever to become president of both his junior and senior class," says a fraternity brother (Theta Delta Chi). "It was typical of him that although he didn't dance, he ran the class dances-and made money out of them...
...nothing paid off. Even an O'Malley-written builders' guide was a financial flop. But after he decided to concentrate on the law, Walter progressed rapidly from wills and deeds to more complicated jobs-the resuscitation of hard-hit bond and mortgage companies. Soon he was senior partner in a firm of 20 lawyers, and he took on the habit of chain-smoking his cigars. He learned to take two solemn puffs before he ever answered a question, particularly questions he was tempted to answer...
...MUNDT: It is a priceless pleasure to work in the committee room with the distinguished senior Senator from Georgia, who has a vast knowledge of agricultural problems, and who applies himself to their solution without partisanship...
...Eyre, a senior who lives in a small single room in Lowell House, has emerged from an obscure early career at Harvard to present what is probably the most important theatrical production of the season. He did much the same thing last year when he presented Deathwatch. And he has spent the intervening time busily acquainting himself with the sundry persons and issues that etch the life of the college--with the consequence that he is one of the few undergraduates one can safely regard as a celebrity...
...supervise jointly the election of Class Day officers, Harvard's only official Big Men on Campus. Fifteen members of the class of 1871 had tried unsuccessfully in their Sophomore year to form a club in opposition to the ones which were apparently rejecting them. The Class Day elections their Senior year provided incentive for them to attempt once more to form a society, and Signet was the result...