Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What, for the present, are the main differences to be expected under the House Plan? Undergraduates of the three upper classes will be grouped by Houses. Living and eating in the same building, they will see more of their tutors and of one another, and there can be more intermingling of under and upper-classmen. Athletics will become more inter-house and less inter-class, although the University athletic contests will go on as usual. Resident tutors will not be proctors. In fact, there will be no proctors in the Houses. To make resident tutors disciplinary officers would scarcely promote...
...Livonia and lost four out of seven match races. Later came the Earl of Dunraven in 1893. He challenged and lost with Valkyrie II. Two years later he built Valkyrie III to race against C. Oliver Iselin's Defender. In that unfortunate race Valkyrie's boom struck Defender's upper rigging at the start and although the committee ruled it no contest, Valkyrie finished, won, claimed the victory. Lord Dunraven went home in a huff, accused Defender of being secretly overballasted...
Study cards of new Freshmen must be filed at C University Hall before 5 o'clock this evening, while all students in Harvard College, except new Freshmen must hand in their cards at C University Hall not later than 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Term bills for both upper-classmen and Freshmen are due and payable at the Harvard Trust Company today...
...While the damage has been serious [along] the Ohio river, in parts of the Rocky Mountain region, in Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and certain of the southern states, the drought has not been serious in the upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys...
...Ralph Wilder, self-made patriarch, has spent his aggressive life patching together acres of farm and forest land in upper New York State. By the time his family is grown up he owns or controls the whole Black River Valley. The local aristocracy will not accept him, but he scorns them; it is his ambition to found his own line. His sons are a disappointment: Henry, the elder, is bookish, an Abolitionist to boot. He and his father rub each other the wrong way. Bascom is almost too much like the old man for his peace of mind: many...