Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forerunner in U. S. colleges long ago. In 1897 a Princeton political economy professor named Woodrow Wilson began thinking about the advisability of re-organization of college life. Basic trouble at Princeton, he thought, was the clubs. President McCosh had suppressed the Greek-letter fraternities; but their successors, the upper-class eating clubs, were just as bad. ''The side shows are swallowing up the circus," was Wilson's famed remark. "There is danger that we will develop socially, as Harvard did and Yale is tending to do." In 1906 he had been president of Princeton for four years...
...first rehearsal for the new Freshman clubs will be held on March 17, von Schrader states. When the upper class organizations disband before the spring vacation, the Freshman concerts will begin...
...picture is continuously amusing, but there are individual incidents that are impossible to forget. In "Reducing" Miss Dressler has said that last word on getting into an upper berth. She is also the author of a consummately executed pistol wedding. The value of the picture is not diminished by the fact that the star never leaves the camera, but it is to be regretted that so skillful a comedienne as Miss Dressler should see fit to resort to occasional touches, light to be sure, of vulgarity to enhance gags that could exist independently...
...when the singers have the air of comics burlesquing grand opera stars. Their voices are not bad but they sing as loud as they can all the time and the recording makes the results even worse. The orchestra utters metallic clickings, moans sepulchrally in the lower register, makes the upper notes shrill and hollow...
...school for coxswains, to be under the direction of F. S. Holmes '32, is open to Freshmen and to members of the three upper classes. "One hundred and thirty pounds." Holmes says, "may be taken as the average maximum weight, but there have been 'varsity coxswains of 135 pounds. No experience is needed: only a few preparatory schools have crews, and not all of these send their coxswains to Harvard. As a result very few experienced men report, and so all will be on an equal footing. Each year the supply of coxswains is taxed to the utmost...