Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarter-mile to escape from a Florida town. He explained: ". . . There was nothing to be gained by staying and I was scared." Against the likes of "Buck" Kester, Arkansas and Mississippi planters protested last February, publicly appealing to Southern churches "not to make their tenants and sharecroppers class-conscious...
...steps to ameliorate its Housing problem. Yesterday University Hall gave out the gladsome tidings that the Associate Member Plan has been adopted and that preference in the admission of upperclassmen to the Houses has been assured. Such a move as this must be gratifying not only to the Freshman class but to the whole college as well; for the cleavages between House men and out-of-Housers which have become increasingly sharp recently will now tend to disappear...
Over a period of years--since, for example, the early 1900's--there has been a surprising tendency for the popularity of a certain class of subjects to remain stable, while that of others fluctuated violently. Within the latter group, it has often occurred that two fields have not only fluctuated, but have done so exactly in inverse relation to one another--indicating, obviously, a tendency of undergraduates to stampede hither and you. As popular as Economics is today, it was even more attractive to students in 1910; at that time the enrollment of Ec. A surpassed that of every...
...that which suggests, even remotely, Joe College. Joseph is an unpopular man in an institution as heterogeneous as Harvard; that brand of indifference arising out of the cross-sectional character of the undergraduate body is generally thought to be in conflict with the homogeneous collegiatism essential to a successful class affair. Perhaps more rational is the fear that a single prom of Cecil B. DeMille proportions would appeal only to a limited class of persons, and thus actually would not be a "class" dance--in the usual sense--at all. Miscellaneous objections to the unwieldiness of the affair, the absence...
...words of Chairman George Kuhn, "the girls have been invited in an attempt to satisfy the desires of every man in the Freshman class and to cover all the fields of talent--with emphasis on the feminine angle...