Word: upon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been retained after the first cut in the basketball squad this year. The team will commence work around a nucleus of five of last year's regulars: Captain H.T. Wenner '30, S.C. Burns ocC, T.G. Upton '31, J.L. Rex '31, and P.W. Mahady '30, are the players upon whom Coach Ed Wachter is certain to rely, while G.H. Pattison '32, W.S. Baskerville '32, and W.J. Holland '32, captain of last year's Freshman team are the leading Sophomores who have joined the squad...
...particularly unfortunate that this restriction on freedom works more hardship upon some men financially less comfortable than others. This is not only out of line with the Harvard custom which deprecates distinction by wealth, but is wholly antagonistic to the spirit of democracy which is presumed to be the essence of the House Plan...
...cross section; men may be classified in a multitude of ways; some men will fall in a great many classes, some only in a few. The mathematics of things are too complicated to allow exact treatment, and only a very human sort of approximation can be made. Much depends upon an unbiased attitude on the part of the choosers and a clear sighted understanding of the difficulties of the situation...
Still another argument against a virtual requirement of this sort is the admirable one brought up in the article above referred to to the effect that men are likely to look with favor upon food, the eating of which is optional and scorn that which they are in any sense forced to eat. It may be absurd, but it is undeniably true as the case of Emmanuel College concretely shows...
...convenience of location were not equal, it is entirely wrong that force should be exerted to get them to eat there. It would seem to be advisable to make the food as good as it is possible to do so and let the success of the project depend upon the excellence of the board without resort to financial persuasion...