Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whom is at present ineligible because of scholastic difficulties. Five of the men from last year's championship class crew also were out regularly. The rest of the squad was composed of other class and dormitory crew men. For the first time in several years, there were almost enough upper-class coxswains for the number of crews on the river...
...method of selecting men is the focal point for discussion of the House plan. No more specific announcement of the University's policy on this point has been announced than that "selection of the members of the three upper classes who will occupy the first dormitory unit will be made by the University authorities, and will be of necessity more or less arbitrary." The report of the Student Council's committee will be closely watched for recommendations on this problem. From the plan's present artificial cross-sectioning Harvard can afford to sacrifice a good deal of the appearance...
...cellar and has revealed him to us as a creature who does not merely gambol with grotesque ponderosity, or grumble in discontented servitude, or speak oracular solemnities, but who can sing with pride and independence and lyric fervor, with something of the cello's poignantly vibrant utterance in its upper register, yet with a fullness of body, a dark and beautiful austerity, and an amplitude of sombre richness that no cello is able to attain...
...young English scientific worker, one R. H. Tate of West Hartlepool, Durham, last week summoned witnesses into his laboratory's secrecy, showed them a sheet of aluminum-like metal on the floor, held a similar piece in the air above the other, removed his hands. The upper piece remained poised in the air. Obviously gravity was being foiled. But how, the young man would not explain...
Without ado he placed a piece of magnetized cobalt steel on a table and in the air some distance above it placed another similar piece. The upper one remained balanced without mechanical support. His explanation was simple: one end of a magnet is positive, the other negative; with two magnets the positive of one attracts the negative of the other, the positive and negative of one repel the positive and negative of the other; cobalt steel can be so highly magnetized that its repellent power can support a relatively large weight against the pull of gravity...