Word: classe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inventor Whittum entered Worcester Polytechnic Institute this fall. Last week he received a curious scholarship of $600 given annually by Henry Jones Fuller, Manhattan banker and Worcester trustee, to that member of the entering class who has shown greatest "Yankee Ingenuity." Should Inventor Whittum win another scholarship in his succeeding years at Worcester, from Trustee Fuller he will receive another...
Just before dawn, one morning a fortnight ago, all seemed quiet on the University of Illinois' midwestern front. But the rambling campus slept fitfully, for later in the day undergraduates were to elect sophomore, junior, senior class officers. Not for some time had the political position of the fraternity cabal been challenged. But this fall, one John Granata, brother of Pete Granata, Chicago precinct captain in Morris Eller's "bloody twentieth" ward, had rallied about him the "barbarians" (non-fraternity men) to form an independent party...
...Granata caused four arrests, subsequently dropping charges when he failed to identify the thieves. His ticket was swamped, four to one. But he had the satisfaction of seeing all the elected candidates disqualified by the student administrative council "because of the recent disgraceful episodes occurring in connection with the class elections...
This afternoon the final matches in both the Class A and Class B tennis tournaments will be played on Divinity Courts, weather permitting. In the former group, Harris Coggeshall 1L, a graduate of Grinnell College in 1928, fourteenth National ranking player, and seeded number one, will meet R. A. Murphy '33, seeded number four, and a former National indoor junior champion...
Enough of what cadets did in the past. There are a few stunts which are pulled year after year. Every year on the morning of graduation, the entire first class assembles in the area of barracks (the quadrangle) and holds an informal parade. The band leads them around and around the area; and they follow in any formation and in any uniform they choose. The uniforms range from two victrola records, silk lingerie, and so forth, to over coats, boots, and wash basins. A similar parade is conducted by the cadets in summer camp at reveille the Fourth of July...