Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such a system to students of high rank I know of one that has about 100 who are getting the benefit of its, while the others have only some 60 or 30 in all. According to the figures compiled this year Harvard College has 1624 members of the three upper classes working with tutors. Compared with other colleges that are doing something of a similar nature this number seems colossal, and the expense is large, but it is well worth all it costs. For the group of men who have built up the system it has been a long...
...Nebraska, Robert E. Hines, youngest member of the State Legislature, proposed a bill to promote prolificacy among the upper classes: annulment of all marriages after three years if no offspring has been born, cases of impotency excepted. The Chicago Tribune commented, "The only thing we lack here in America is a law making the immortality of the soul compulsory...
...Brass bar in the Senate which acts as a barrier to remind the Commons that they are not technically allowed on the floor of the upper house...
...senior at that time in the University. The self-educated President had given his son the best possible educational advantages which the country could afford. The subject mater of the letter is unimportant, but Lincoln's striking simplicity is illustrated by the envelope. On the upper left hand corner, where the stamp should be, the President had written in his homely--handwriting, A. Lincoln...
...almost every Freshman who enters Harvard, the one word of advice given to him by his advisers and friends in the upper classes of College is to "go out for something". This bit of advice has become one of the few and powerful traditions at Harvard, which has been handed down from class to class...