Word: upon
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Memorial Hall loomed large before 900 hesitant and expectant freshmen on the morning of September 21, 1928, as they filed before "the huge Gothic pile" to register as members of the Class of 1932. The eyes of Burke and Chatham looked severely down upon them, the jealous gargoyles stared angrily at the Yard behind them, and the clangor of the bell seemed to make time itself revert to the 19th century as they enrolled...
...time these freshmen graduated, the eyes of Chatham and Burke guarded little more than a storeroom for University files, the gargoyles gazed upon a College that was almost unrecognizable as the Harvard of 1932, and the bell, tolling too slowly to keep up with the changes that had been made, had been stolen in disgust...
Stone said that the bindery employees voted to join a union other than the Building Service local, and noted that the final outcome of the balloting among employees of the Department of Athletics will depend upon a ruling by the State Labor Relations Commission on the eligibility of two voters, whose ballots were contested by the local last month...
Edward Sullivan, president of the Building Service local, said that his union's agreement to the eligibility of the employees depended upon the authenticity of statements concerning the individuals made at an informal Labor Relations Commission hearing prior to the election. He said that the protest was lodged after the local decided that the statements were not true. Sullivan would not reveal the nature of the statements...
...wonders if he'll control what comes next. As a man in the truck sprays the trees a Junior remembers his 24 hours fighting the Plymouth forest fire, and he wonders why he met so many Harvard students there and whether it was fun, excitement, ennui, or a commentary upon Harvard and a nation...