Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accorded to the Student Council a greater voice in student affairs than that body ever possessed before. Dean Greenough consults with the Student Council once a month, and welcomes any criticisms and suggestions in regard to University policy. The ruling of the Administrative Board last fall which allows upper classmen to go on and off probation for scholastic deficiencies only at midyears and after final examinations was, for example, worked out by Dean Greenough in collaboration with the Student Council...
...work is handicapped by inadequate facilities, but is nevertheless being improved and broadened so as to help more men. Mr. Fradd stated that requests are coming in from the different graduate schools to give their men special exercises. At present only the Freshmen and a small number of upper classmen and graduate students can be taken care of. However, after the mid-year examinations when the Freshman course is over, Mr. Fradd intends to run a series of corrective classes for upper classmen and graduate students. All Freshmen graded D in their physical examination are compelled to take these corrective...
...years. The lords have continuously been Conservative, almost to a man; and the present cabinet is hoping to coin their temporary popularity in the Commons into a mint of future strength. The power of the lords is to be positively restored by providing that all bills from which the upper house dissents will be drawn up by a committee of sixty, divided equally between the two houses and shared among the parties according to relative strength. These compromise bills cannot then be amended by either house, but must be accepted or rejected as a whole. Since the Conservatives are soon...
...that they can afford to waste money. There are other signs with which we are also familiar. No English public school can now compete with some American Universities in their enthusiasm for sport, and they are only following our English lead when they discover moral reasons for sacrificing the upper-class youth of the country to the unit of athletics. Most significant of all, however, is the growth among a small section in some Universities of a leisured attitude to learning. Business America still demands a business education, but the new gentlemanly class, having made the excellent discovery that business...
...find a friendly confident guide through the mazes of Widener would be a splendid boon to the incoming Freshman, and no less to busy upper classmen who have so little time to experiment on strange volumes. In his special field of study the student soon becomes competent to select authors for himself. In the departments of his "distribution" he is also possessed of some kind of compass. But unless his education has gone far beyond that of the average undergraduate all else is an uncharted sea. To have friendly access to a humanist who would pilot him past the shoals...