Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Snedden's comparison of scholastic records of the athletes and non-athletes of the Class of 1927 tends to confirm the general run of careful observation. Men engaged in sports do have slightly lower grades than the average of the rest of the class, but the difference is so slight that it means little more than that between a C plus and a C in one of four courses. On the other hand in regard to the number of men who actually graduate there is a considerable distinction in ravor of the athletes. Such a variation might be caused...
...Christmas Day, and on Sundays, December 23 and 30, the Library will be closed throughout the day. On week-days during the recess the Library will close at 5.30 o'clock; the Lower Reading Room will be open from 9 to 5.30 o'clock, except on Saturdays, when it closes at 1 o'clock...
...Lower Yosemite (Calif...
...Lower Yellowstone (Mont...
...made however a stir in sections of Manhattan where business is the subject of smart chatter. In the smart restaurants of lower Park Avenue, headwaiters consulted patrons differentially but earnestly. There were two reasons why they did so: Headwaiters yield only to speakeasy owners as shrewd investors; many a headwaiter was acquainted with the young and impressive Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. who was named to head the board of directors of the Jenkins Television Corp...