Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the undergraduates took their academic work more seriously than usual. This feeling is borne out by statistics which show that the percentage of students on the Dean's List this fall is higher than at any time since the establishment of such a list; 26 percent of the upper classmen are now on the Dean's List with an average of B or better as compared with 23.2 percent on year ago, 21 percent in 1930, and 21.4 percent in 1929. Of especial interest is the fact that all classes have shown an improvement, while in the past usually...
...during the first year of operation under the plan as a whole has been such as to give us a clearer idea of the effects of the now arrangement upon undergraduate life from both the educational land social points of view. The living and eating conditions of about 1700 upper classmen have been improved as compared with the situation existing prior to 1930. The libraries have been used to the fullest extent. A more suitable environment has been provided for the carrying on of tutorial work, since the majority of students are assigned to tutors attached to their respective Houses...
...second place with Erwin Rudolph and Andrew Ponzi. In the playoff, Caras beat Rudolph by 125-to-8. Later the same day he disposed of Ponzi, 12540-94, in a match which ended with Caras' dangerous cut-shot for the right-hand upper corner pocket-when, if he had been a little less sure of himself, he might have broken a cluster to put Ponzi out of position instead of trying to run out the game. Son of a Greek pool parlor proprietor, Caras learned to play when he was 7 and so small he had to stand...
...black- haired Chancellor of the British Exchequer Neville Chamberlain loomed in the Empire's eye last week as a future Prime Minister because of his potent and dignified handling of the debt issue in the House of Commons where anger, much less hysteria, was never permitted to get the upper hand...
Swords and arrows are the weapons of the Santals, simple hill folk in upper Bengal. Last week one of their chiefs suddenly decided that he was St. Gandhi. Shouting, "I am the Mahatma! I am Gandhi himself!" he led his tribe to Malda where they seized a local mosque...