Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outdone by delegates from the Mikado and has again sent a student to Harvard who will some day, mark my words, shine as a first magnitude star in the Crimson swimming firmament. Already he has broken the Freshman record in the 200-yard free-style and bids fair to lower his own mark once more. This particular representative of Hawaii is Peter Emilio Arioli, Jr. '38, who gives his home as Hilo, Hawaii...
Since there are an unusually large number of full professors in relation to associates and assistants in the Department, it is considered that Mr. Whiting's appointment will be the first of a series to the lower professorial grades...
...minority of those who answered truthfully, however, suffered. Room mates with unequal maximums were separated. The suggestion was even made that a lower priced double room should be taken and that the richer of the two should pay the higher price for it, thus leaving a better room to some one else at the cheaper price. No, that could certainly not be arranged. It would upset everything. And think of the difficulties of bookkeeping! So that a very equitable arrangement was banned without question--and a lesson was learned...
However much satisfaction may be derived from the thought that one is helping one's fellows, that one is serving Uncle Sam, that there is more security in Civil Service than in most industries, that the pay in the lower categories is more adequate--no Civil Service will be of permanent value so long as it fails to attract those men who possess the rare quality of leadership. The fact which cannot be overemphasized is that such men are not attracted by security alone, nor by mere altruism. What they have demanded in the past, and what they will certainly...
...That was a time for iron nerves, I can tell you. With my rope gone, the slightest movement would have thrown me off my balance. After three hours they were able to lower another rope from the chimney top and take me off that ledge. I wouldn't be here now if I'd become jittery when the other fellow fell...