Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Norman Robertson of the Canadian Foreign Office and tutor in Government at Adams House in place of Professor Bruce C. Hopper will be the guest of honor at the Adams House dinner Monday evening and afterwards he will speak in the upper common room on the London Economic Conference where he served as a member of the Canadian delegation...
...suddenly broke out, and the sober looking man joined in to rescue a poor drunken wretch whom Sobersides addressed as "Dear Dick." The Vagabond bethought himself of Dean Swift, and would have visited that worthy, but his attire was so disarranged by a jar of slops flung from an upper window that he betook himself instead to Vauxhall, and rested in a quiet corner of the garden, seeing but unseen. This morning he will ascertain the views of Professor Abbott on the culture of Anne's reign...
...Constitution: The parliamentary system will be greatly modified, not wholly abolished. Above both chambers of Parliament will be placed a Council of State of some 20 members to be appointed by the President and smacking vaguely of Benito Mussolini's Fascist Grand Council. In the new Upper Chamber will sit representatives of Austria's economic and professional groups and provincial chambers. The present Austrian Lower Chamber will be reduced from 165 Deputies to 70 or 75, continuing to be elected by popular suffrage. As a shrewd blow at Naziism, whose strength is in Austria's hot youths...
With freshman enrollments everywhere increased over last year's, and upper-class enrollments slightly decreased (because men with two or three years of learning could better yield place), some college openings were noteworthy as follows...
...preliminary meeting sometime next week, the Council will decide upon a policy for the year. The Council will also determine at what time and under what conditions a series of competitions will be held for men in the three upper classes to qualify for positions on the squad. The Council has made tentative arrangements for four debates in November and December. Two of these are away from Cambridge, and one is to be broadcast by a local radio station...