Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt had as their dinner guests Dr. & Mrs. Walter N. Thayer. Good friend of the Roosevelts, Dr. Thayer is New York State Commissioner of Correction. Another guest was Geoffrey O'Hara, who owns a copyright to "The Star-Spangled Banner" by virtue of having transposed it to a lower key and who wrote the War song "K-K-K-Katy." After dinner the President listened appreciatively while Singer McGregor McKnight rendered a number with music by Composer O'Hara, lyrics by Dr. Thayer and dedicated to Franklin D. Roosevelt. The title: "I Have a Rendezvous with Life." Sample...
...Master of Arts. . . . At present am administrator of six schools, serve as principal of one, have five periods in classroom daily, hunt up delinquent children, find clothing for the indigent, keep school busses running, raise money to carry on athletic program. . . . For past two years my salary has been lower in my town than that of any local mail clerk, mail carrier, business manager or administrator, preacher, and of certain filling station employees and retail clerks. . . . Assets: one car (runs best in garage); three suits clothes (when wearing two of which I find a strictly upright carriage advisable) ; one pair...
...these courses do not necessarily require a year in A-2 or 22. If they feel that a man is ready for a higher course, he is admitted. The flexibility of the present system is one of its virtues. On the other hand, some men could go through five "lower" courses and still not be ready for a more advanced one. In the final analysis, it is a man's ability that will get him ahead in composition courses...
...Since the demand for cheap rooms is greater than the supply, a student who offers less than he can afford increases the chances that he can not be provided for in a House. Insofar as students who can afford to pay higher prices succeed in securing rooms in the lower middle price range, they reduce for their less well-to-do classmates the chances of securing admission to a House. The rooms priced at $180 and below were awarded on the same basis as scholarships: l.e., with careful regard to the financial needs of the applicants. Delmar Leighton...
Epidemic conditions have not yet been reached, according to Dr. Paul H. Means '17, medical adviser. There are now lower cases than there were two weeks ago, although danger of rapid spread is still prevalent owing to the laxity of students in reporting the disease...