The classes in a 4-year high school or college are designated: * Freshman (1st year) * Sophomore * Junior * Senior (4th year) In identifying people in one family with identical names, the term "Junior" is used for the younger of the two and "Senior" is used for the older of the two. When the older one dies, the younger may assume the suffix, "Senior," if there is a yet younger member of the family with the same name, or may simply drop the "Junior" suffix. (For example, several years after the death of his father, Sammy Davis, Jr., began to be billed simply as Sammy Davis.) If there are three or more people alive in one family with the same name at the same time, the Junior and Senior suffixes are not adequate, and there is no third term in this system. Then only the numbering system will serve. (That is, John Smith II, John Smith III, John Smith IV, etc.) In this system the suffix number continues to apply to the person even after death.
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