Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sargent best Ware by a score of 3-1 in the semi-finals of the lower bracket, and Glidden won in the upper bracket by defeating Ware...
...Upper class men have tutors whose province it is to advise them on such matters. By contrast, Freshmen have to depend for their information as to the actual material covered in a course on two sources, neither of which is note-worthy for infallible accuracy. The first source is the Freshmen advisers, public-spirited but much harassed guardians of infant university members. They have come in for their share of criticism already--not always deservedly--and in this instance they cannot be held responsible for a minute knowledge of some one-hundred odd course syllabi. The other source of knowledge...
Gathering tonight at 7.45 o'clock in the Adams House upper common room for its first meeting of 1935, the Memorial Society will have as speaker Jerome D. Greene '96, Secretary to the Corporation. A new councillor will also be elected to fill the vacancy on the Society's governing board...
...super-scholars," or to phrase it more modestly, for minds above the average. The whole ambition of the best educators of the past two decades has been to arrive at a compromise between the necessity for taking care of "averagemen," whose fees are a necessity and the "upper fourth," whose intellects are the valuable thing. Any attempt to devitalize the strong medicine of learning to fit the mind of the less-than-average or the average man should meet with stern opposition: it would be highly reactionary...
...Imperial College of Science & Technology last month was a delicate device of highly specialized application. Essentially it consists of two thermometers hooked into an electric circuit. In practice one thermometer is buried just under the surface of the soil, the other supported in the air just above. The upper thermometer gives the air temperature, and since the buried one cannot be seen, a dial records the temperature differential between the two. From that the warmth of the ground can be computed...