Word: senior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part in the culture of an educated man. While Divisional Examinations have made obligatory for candidates in Literatures or History and Literature the study of two ancient authors, the student has been left to thumb his own way through the Biad and the Odyssey during the summer preceding his Senior year, and generally reaches the time of the examinations with inadequate preparation for them and no appreciation at all for the works he has studied. This may be argued back to the omnipresent evil of cramming, but the fact remains that the pretense that men are made really better rounded...