Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game vaguely like handball which originated at Eton. They have some say in choosing from their number a senior prefect who, with half a dozen ordinary prefects to help him, exercises disciplinary authority over the whole school. They live in "cubicles." small curtained cells, until they reach the upper forms, when they also get studies. At all times they are closely supervised and when they go home for vacations they are told what a terrible thing it is to disgrace the name of Groton...
...Peabody has made no bones about Groton's being a school for the upper class. Among this class Groton found early favor. To it went Higginsons, Whitneys, Harrimans. Rogerses, Morgans. Theodore Roosevelt sent three sons and some plain words: "I was glad to hear the Rector when he asked you to be careful not to turn out snobs. Now there are in our civic and our social life very much worse creatures than snobs but none more contemptible...
Tracing Harvard's football history from the early traditional battles between the freshmen and the sophomores to the modern day game, Jimmy Knox, Jayvee coach of the Casey regime, addressed the Harvard Memorial Society in the Upper Common room of Adams House last night...
...automatic instrument that will broadcast a report of weather conditions direct from the upper air as it hangs from a sounding balloon has been perfected at the University's Meteorological Observatory at Blue Hill...
...investigation of upper air weather conditions which are of importance to both weather forecasting and air transportation have heretofore been accomplished by instruments which were sent up and then read upon their return to the ground. The new instrument, called a radio-meteorological, automatically transmits, every thirty seconds, records of temperature, humidity, and barometric pressire...