Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phenomenon of the British Sunday morning as church bells. Full accounts of the nation's latest divorces, accidents and murders were devoured downstairs by goggle-eyed scullery-maids. Upstairs in her boudoir the lady of the house was feasting on the same spicy journalistic fare, for to the upper crust the paper's selling point was that it presented the week's scandal news in toto and in one lump. Up, up, up climbed circulation. By last week News Of The World had reached the record total of 3,350,000. And the current issue was typical of the paper...
Standing on a speaker's platform placed there for the occasion, Professor Copeland could be plainly heard to the farthest corner of the well-packed upper Common Room of the Union...
Shepard Hall's three upper floors, vacant since the College ceased using the building as a dormitory, have been donated by Harvard for the headquarters of an ERA project to study unemployment conditions in Massachusetts. The census was begun several months ago by the CWA and later transferred to the ERA, but within the last few weeks lack of funds threatened an indefinite postponement of the project, until Harvard offered the free use of Shepard Hall to the Massachusetts Department of Labor...
...clock this afternoon Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, will give his fourth annual reading in the Upper Common Room of the Union...
...fluctuations of enrollment and wealth account for the inconvenience to this fraction of the undergraduate body, they do not prevent an attempt to remedy the situation. To allow upper class residents of these halls house privileges should not be difficult, for in number they are few, and as Freshmen they had many acquaintances among present House residents. An assignment of seven to each House would provide for the entire group with little trouble, and would go far to right the present injustice...