Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that first year men have some basis on which to make their choice of a House. At present, that choice is founded, generally, on rumor, on chance, on any number of vague reasons. It is conceivable that if dining in the Houses did not imply an imposition on his upper class friends, the Freshman would have an excellent opportunity to become acquainted with all seven. Secondly, at a time when Freshman advisers have little influence over their advisees and often even less interest in them, the harrassed first year man might derive much benefit from the informed cynicism...
...close, the squash season has only three more weeks of league play. The outstanding showing this year, besides the capture of the State crown by Robert Grant Ill, '34 has been that of the Freshman C team, which stands decisively at the head of its league, having defeated the upper-classmen and the other teams of the C league with little difficulty...
...mitigate the heretical resolution that upper-class elections are doomed, the Freshman elections, will be allowed to continue. At present the entire control of Freshman affairs is placed in the hands of the Freshman union Committee appointed from each dormitory at the beginning of the year, thereby eliminating all necessity for any officers whether nominal or active. The fact that the Freshman Class may be more of a "unit" than the others is no argument for electing three men whose only service will be to provide their pictures for ornamenting a frontispiece in the Red Book...
...Jost, 15, of Chippewa Falls, Wis. had ceased sneezing when Mrs. Lonnie Dickson, 48, of Princeton, Ky., commenced to sneeze. Daisy held the time record (nine days); Mrs. Dickson set the frequency record (25 times a minute). While the excitement lasted friends advised all sorts of remedies-pressing the upper lip, cold baths, blowing cigaret smoke through the nose. Doctors cured both sneezers by giving them sedatives (which allowed them to sleep and gain strength) and letting the attacks blow themselves...
...nearly 50 years, the scholarship has been awarded to upper classmen in Harvard College. This year, in order to encourage excellence in Latin and Greek studies among entering students, it has been decided to open the scholarship to preparatory school students as a prize award in the classics...