Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Graduate Advisory Committee on Rowing. There will be no attempt to actually race the men against each other for any set distance but the five eights will be tested for power and ability when rowing hard abreast of each other as well as when paddling at a lower stroke...
...Rand revolution started as a result of an acute economic situation, caused by the grades of ore being mined. Gold depreciated in value, and the quality of ore kept getting lower and lower until the mine owners, perceiving the drift of events, set about making attempts to improve the situation. This they did by outting down many of the privileges of the white laborers in the mines, who heretofore had enjoyed certain liberties and immunities over their black fellow-workers. The former immediately expostulated, but without effect, and the struggle broke out. The white miners, however, were largely influenced...
...difficult not to argue in circles when discussing this subject. One can say, as Mr. Lamont does, that the fundamental trouble lies in the lower schools; it would; however, be difficult flatly to deny any statement saying it is the colleges that influence the high schools. Of course, each influences the other; but we are of the opinion that the college exerts much the greater pressure. For instance, the college sets certain entrance requirements, and these particularly mould school curricula. The college has a magazine, so must the preparatory or high school. The college has athletic teams, so the others...
...weekdays from 9 to 5, on Saturdays from 9 to 1, and on Sundays not at all. In Room O are kept books constantly in demand by men concentrating in this division and not to be found elsewhere in the building, either in the Main reading room or in Lower Widener. These books are needed both for, regular assignments in various courses and for outside tutorial reading in the division. Under the present system a man who has a 12 to 1 class on Saturdays, or who is occupied in outside activities at Soldier's Field or elsewhere...
...Wednesday, March 17, 1920, the Student Council, worried over the lack of interest shown in the elections of the three lower classes, proposed two amendments to the constitutions of these classes, designed to meet the situation. The amendments provided that 60 percent of a class should vote before an election could be valid, and prescribed ballotting for more than one day if the quote was not reached within the customary time. To quote from the CRIMSON of that date: "In the past two or three years too few members of each class have shown sufficient interest in class affairs...