Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extra day, to be shown over the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen by famed Egyptologist James Henry Breasted of the University of Chicago. With a contented smile, Mr. Eastman remarked that his unburned luggage contains a fine specimen of the nearly extinct white rhinoceros which he shot in the upper Nile region by special permission of the Egyptian Government...
During the first week in April, 40 upper classmen, most of them Seniors, will hold office hours and give Freshmen frank information upon courses of study in the various fields. Each field of concentration will be represented, some by one Senior, and the larger fields by several men, one for each important sub-division. The advisers will be men of high academic standing who are qualified to criticize most of the courses in their special fields, and to advise Freshmen of the relative value, interest, of difficulty of the courses as they have found them...
...Upper classmen who have been concentrating in Geology, have the option of continuing under the regulation in force under which they started, or of shifting to the tutorial system with a general examination...
...Cheek '26 will be in charge again this year and will himself coach one of the teams. The league of teams will be composed of the three upper class squads, while the Freshman dormitory teams will have a separate series of games having no connection with the class teams. Cheek and his assistants will organize the teams supervise the elections of captains, and instruct the players. Once underway, however, the class leagues will be run as much as possible by the players, themselves...
...evolution of the animal depends on the development of the upper brain: the greater the development the more complicated the conditioned reflexes become. The ability to learn by experience, which is simply a matter of conditioning the reflexes, increases; the animal can adjust to ever more varied environments. Man has the most intricately convoluted upper brain of the whole animal kingdom and can therefore adapt himself to a wide range of conditions...