Word: seniors
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...many of those who stop out, the year (or years) off can prove more arduous than college itself. Stanford Senior Doug Patt, a campus graybeard at 28, has twice interrupted his college career to "see how life is out there in the streets." What he saw, in such jobs as that of supervisor at an Alaska salmon cannery, persuaded him to return for his degree last fall, almost a decade after he entered college. Rice University Senior Charles Lansdell, another 28-year-old, who is graduating this spring, spent three years as a clerk at the First City National Bank...
...committee will be elected next fall and will consist of three sophomores; one member from each field of government (political theory, comparative government, American government, and international relations) to be elected from and by the concentrators in the junior and senior classes; and one member each from the junior and senior classes elected at large from those classes...
Paxton is probably more known for his basketball skill back in Paducah, where in his senior year at Paducah St. Mary's High School he was captain of both the basketball and the golf team. "Paducah" held his own playing pick-up with University of Kentucky sharpshooter Jack "Goose" Givens when both were in high school, Paxton met Givens, who comes from Lexington, Kentucky, when both attended a model state legislature...
Clark probably envisioned that one day the town would be the site of three golf courses not to mention an atomic energy plant. These days young Paducans spend their time hunting birdies instead of bears. One of the new breed of golfing Paducans is David Paxton, a senior on the Harvard golf team who played some of the most superlative golf of his career this season. His teammates simply refer to him as "Paducah." "Paducah" Paxton took up the game just after dispensing with his swaddling clothes, wielding a sawed-off set of clubs handed to him by his father...
Paducah, however, is a hotbed for golfing talent. "It's really strange," says Paxton, "because Paducah's a pretty little town but there are about ten or twelve golfers my age who are exceptionally good." As a senior, Paxton led his St. Mary's team to the high school state championships and neighboring Paducah Tillman High won the states...