Word: upperclasses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guest. There are four pairs of guests, mysteriously summoned to a penthouse party, each pair having reason to mortally fear and hate the other. They are: A socialite and the woman lawyer who knows her closest secret; an upperclass politician and the political boss who defeated him; a university president and a disgruntled instructor whom he has dismissed; two lovers who have quarreled over valuable real estate. Invited by anonymous telegrams, as they arrive each thinks one of the others is host. None of them can understand why they have been brought in the company of their adversaries. Suddenly...
...proposal of the CRIMSON to settle the degree situation seems a satisfactory one from every aspect. It suggests awarding an A.B. or a B.S. according as the student's "field of concentration"--his upperclass department at Princeton--is in the arts or the sciences. With the additional change of setting three or four units of school or college Latin as prerequisite to the arts departments, such a plan would appear desirable at Princeton. --Daily Princetonian
...concert with the Princeton choir on Sunday will take place in the University chapel, and will be devoted entirely to religious music, Following there will be a luncheon in the Upperclass Commons with entertainment by Princeton...
Colloredo's premature entree into upperclass rowing circles took place last year when the University crew was swinging along the upper stretches of the Charles one afternoon. A bad feather, a crab, a jarring thump, and a splash as one oarsman flashed overboard into the none too clean water just about tells the story. Another bump as the nautical sweepswinger's head broke through the surface of the ripples and landed against a rigger, almost added another chapter to the story but the crew held hard, the shocked oarsman bobbed up astern, and all was well except for a rather...
Graduates will be expected to have "a good working knowledge of at least one foreign language." Not content with book-learned appreciation of foreign affairs, students will go abroad in their upperclass summer vacations to study and observe while living in "homes where only the foreign language is spoken...