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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Discusses "Valedictorian Complex...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: King Discusses Freshman Year | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...feelings for Akihito ("I do love him," she told a friend. "His sincerity won me over.") Perhaps she was aware of the grueling education in protocol and punctilio that lies ahead. Always the sensible girl, who once earned the nickname "Antelope" because of her bouncy, athletic ways, she was valedictorian of her class and president of the students' committee at Tokyo's University of the Sacred Heart (though she is not a Roman Catholic). She wrote her thesis on The Forsyte Saga, insisted on typing every one of the 100 pages herself rather than spend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Falling Curtain | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...roughly the feeling experienced by the valedictorian of Wood-row Wilson H. S. when he discovers all the other valedictorians in his college freshman class. Golf-playing vice presidents, Army majors, men who never read anything weightier than Time suddenly find themselves thrown together to study, discuss, and (as one troubled AMP expressed it) "read, read, read...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: The Organization Man Goes To College | 11/12/1958 | See Source »

...will not be cozened out of our birthright by the prophets of doom," orated 20-year-old Charles E. Hodges, valedictorian for 120 graduating seniors at Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Md. The coal miner's son spoke for "thousands of graduates throughout the nation" in asking their elders "to place confidence in us." The response came minutes later on the same platform, when U.S. Citizen No. 1 praised the valedictory as the best he had ever heard, went on to match its spirit with an account of "more crusades that need to be waged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Commencement & Survival | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

Debate Club, recently demoted to after-school hours, is the most intellectually stimulating of the activities. (For the past four years, the valedictorian has been a debater.) A student who is bored with his social studies courses can explore problems of national and international politics for debates and extemporaneous speaking contests. By writing debate cases, he will gain more experience for college paper-writing than through the infrequent English course essays...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Typical Midwestern High School Seeks Values Outside Classrooms | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

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