Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case last year, Arthur Weindorf, a piddling punster and an ugly draughtsman, was the worst offender. He depicted a woman leaning out of an upper berth in a pullman to whack a bald, bearded interloper with a slipper, and called it Birth Control...
...were bettered and the lower grade men somewhat lowered. One would expect the proofs of the continuance of this tendency to be found in the Dean's List enrollment, for dealing as it does with a much smaller number it is more sensitive to changes affecting these upper strata of the student body than the more inclusive general rank list. Certainly nothing of the sort can be gathered from the figures for the first half of the current scholastic year, and the best that can be said is that there is no positive sign of decline that can be laid...
Dean Hampden is the only actor-manager, in the sense of the term as it was applied to such as Edwin Booth and Richard Mansfield, in the U. S. today. He is the financial and artistic force "behind every play shown in the Walter Hampden Theatre on upper Broadway. A beardless patriarch, aged only 48, he follows his profession with perhaps sterner self-discipline but with more self-consciousness than his brothers, Paul, John, and Malcolm, have developed in following their respective professions of painting, law and literature...
Sirs: After reading your article on The Hill School in Feb. 11 issue I thought you might be interested to know that some public high schools are also doing this pioneer work. Upper Darby High School, Upper Darby, Pa.-a Philadelphia suburban High School-has for a number, of years, under the leadership of its principal, John H. Tyson, had a system of personal history cards, which are similar in purpose and idea to those of the Hill School. They are a four years' cumulative record of all that might help to determine a pupil's fitness...
...Teacher Upper Darby...