Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Breaking the bonds of a thirteen-year tradition, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences upon the recommendation of the administrative Board has voted to abolish the Rank List, for upper classmen. Since the inception of the tutorial system there has been felt a necessity for such action in order to lessen the emphasis placed upon course grades, and to give proportionate credit for tutorial work...
Ramapithecus had a V-shaped upper jaw more similar to human form than to the U-shaped jaws of modern gorillas, orangs, chimpanzees. Sugrivapithecus had a well-developed chin like that of primitive man. Both had close-set, almost human teeth, lacking the formidable canine tusks of the great apes of today. The third genus was more like extinct apes previously discovered...
There was a meeting of the Henry Adams Club in Adams House yesterday noon. The club is composed of young graduate students in American history and after dinner they adjourned to the upper common room to revel in some choice tid-bits of knowledge to top off the season. On their way upstairs one of the members, supposedly a stranger to the architectural beauties of Adams House paused before the Tudor door that leads into the Roman court and smiled as he looked at the Moorish dome over the stair well. "It looks like a boudoir," he said...
...real estate to a simple maxim: "Never sell." Head of the gloomy house of Van Brett is Spinster Victoria (Mary Morris), a malevolent despot who rules the others with a rod of gold. When her half-brother (Kent Taylor) marries a hospital nurse (Evelyn Venable), Victoria determines that this "upper servant" shall never touch Van Brett money...
...rose up in righteous anger against Editor Banks, who was nearly defeated already by his own misfortunes. Editor Ruhl, brother of Arthur Ruhl of the New York Herald Tribune, is everything that his enemy is not: tall, handsome, scholarly, a Harvardman (1903), Unitarian, Elk, Rotarian and Republican. The Medford upper crust approves of him highly, but the mass of Rogue River small orchardists and laborers regard him as a silk stocking. With an editorial entitled "TIME TO WAKE UP," Editor Ruhl called upon his readers to "prevent armed rebellion and bloodshed under Llewellyn A. Banks-the John Brown...