Word: juniors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better. Each incoming freshman gets an academic adviser, who usually becomes his sophomore supervisor as well. The function of the adviser during the first two years is at best loosely defined, and many underclassmen rarely see the men assigned to them. When students begin to concentrate in the junior year, they receive a "major adviser," who works closely with them, planning courses and helping with other academic decisions. The job of major adviser is a difficult one, and there are not enough men to go around. "We are not spending enough money on what is a good system in theory...
Perhaps the most striking evidence of the desire to improve is shown by the growth of independent study programs in the junior and senior years. Under the careful direction of Dr. E. Sculley Bradley, vice-Provost for undergraduate studies, the College's English department has established a plan for individual research with only two formal course requirements--a regular class in Junior year and a senior seminar in the major field. Bradley foresees a continuation of the trend toward independent work, and other departments are working to formalize programs similar to that for English concentrators...
...squad the Crimson must face Saturday displayed an unexpectedly fine passing attack and a tremendous defense in holding the heavily favored Middies to a stand-off. A group of 1,900 Midshipmen, in Philadelphia for Penn's Junior Weekend and the Navy's first free period of the fall, staggered off to the post-game fraternity parties in a daze...
...Chaikovskovo Street and Vorovskovo Street, a block from his office. Suddenly, in the very best Eric Ambler fashion, five civilianclad men closed in around him, efficiently pinned his arms, covered his mouth, hauled him into a nearby alley where waited a Zim, the Buick-copied car used by junior Red officials...
Iraq's Arab enemies, led by the United Arab Republic's President Nasser, laid plans to intervene when and if civil war broke out between Iraq's Communists and antiCommunists. In Syria, the junior member of the U.A.R., 3,000 Palestinians, trained as Nasserite commandos, were being held in readiness barely 100 miles from the strategic Iraqi city of Mosul, and Bedouin tribes along the frontier had been organized into fighting units by Iraqi officers who had fled the brutal justice of Kassem's People's Court. From Jordan, where young King Hussein still dreams...