Word: topping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upper story windows upon the tin roofs of the porches below. And though I recall no instance of a skunk being placed in the desk of a West Point professor, there is an authentic story to the effect that the superintendent's cow was once hoisted to the top of the tower of the old Academic Building and left there in the night to moo--out hours of anguish before she could be released from her precarious situation...
...another time some enterprising young gentlemen slipped out at night and removed the reveille cannon from its accustomed place. By some miraculous engineering, feat they hoisted it on top of the academic building and fired it off in the dead of night. It took a detachment of Engineers almost a week to lower the gun to its original position...
...choice naturally given to the first two Houses may result in a monopoly of the best tutors by them. Coupled with the better physical equipment which these units will enjoy over those which may later be made by the adaptation of old buildings this priority may result in the top-heavy popularity of these Houses. The dangers of this situation are admittedly not pertinent to the present, but a proper recognition of their possibility should dictate that particular care be expended in building up the ranks of the non-House tutors in preparation for further inroads...
...South and West. Admission had always been by special examinations, which were very difficult for graduates of even the best Western schools; but in 1925 Harvard rules to accept, without examination, from states South of the Ohio river and west of the Mississippi, boys who rank in the top one-seventh of the graduating class of a regularly organized and affiliated high school. This new ruling and this open-handed welcome to the boys of the South and West has resulted in greatly increased representation from these sections, and these new boys are ranking high in their classes...
...answered the bell had been talking over the telephone when the bell rang- the girl at the other end of the wire vouched for that. Bloody gloves were found in the night porter's pocket. One groundfloor tenant was a notorious jewel thief. The landlord and the top-floor married couple were also suspects. The murderer, like everyone else, was, indeed, indoors-where any of Author Kennedy's readers will remain who begin reading the book there...