Word: upon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock in room 110, Pierce Hall. The main speaker on the program will be G. L. Kennelly, Professor of Electrical Engineering, who was the principal electrical assistant to Edison during the period from 1887 to 1894. Special exhibits and programs telling of Mr. Edison's achievements and their effect upon modern civilization have been arranged...
...newspapers are an important factor in the prevailing misrepressentation of college and especially university existence. There seems to be a malge in the word "college" which puts the most trivial incident upon the front page." Unimportant happenings and silly pranks which-pass the unnoticed in a college town are seized upon and played by the newspapers. Almost up played by the newspapers. Almost invariably they are things which will add to the current impression fostered by the press...
...Cadets (211th. Coast Artillery Anti-Aircraft) of Massachusetts. Forty men clad in striking uniforms of white jackets with light blue facings and light blue trousers will compose the troop which will first act in the capacity of official escort to the Governor in the morning program. Following the review upon the Common, the platoon will be dismissed at the Armory, and will reassemble in the Yard in time to assist the Reception Committee in Cambridge...
...first assembly of the reunited Church of Scotland was held in a garage containing some 12,000 chairs. While rain beat upon the roof the position of moderator of the reunited church was voted to Rev. John White, minister of the Barony of Glasgow...
Louis Firpo. Though he "had just about enough English to get upstairs in an elevator, . . .he wrote thousands of words for the American press upon the manly...