Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having glanced over the high spots of the nine preceding Triangular meets, it is interesting to note, with the tenth classic close at hand, that Harvard, Dartmouth and Gornell each have three victories to their credit. Dartmouth had the upper hand in the beginning, but Cornell soon usurped the Green supremacy. The Crimson athletes have most recently been masters of the situation, but if they are destined to hold their present situation and forge ahead of their opponents for a fourth consecutive triumph they will have to turn back two threatening track hordes in the Arena this coming Saturday night...
...meeting for all candidates who are interested will be held at 2.30 o'clock Monday in the Newell Boat House. Freshmen as well as upper classmen are invited to attend...
...statement of President Lowell that the degree of Master of Arts is becoming an excrescence in modern education will be as gratifying to students in the upper rank groups, as it is a valuable suggestion for advantageous segregation. For the observation is based on the fact that men graduating with honors from Harvard are now prepared to assume the responsibilities of individual productive research that signalizes the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, without intermediate preparation. The master's degree must continue to exist as a haven for the ambitious but unprepared, and to satisfy the requirements for teaching positions...
...recent editorial stated that "After the mid-year examinations the Weekly will endeavor to print in its columns every week the subjects, hours, and class rooms of lectures that it believes will be of most general interest to the Collegt," and appended a petition, signed by the three upper classes, to facilitate vagabonding. The Oregon Emerald has already instituted a column headed "The Vagabond...
...More than 20 years before he reached his present dramatic dexterity, famed John Galsworthy, with a problem buzzing under his bonnet, like a bee, wrote this play. The silver box, a receptacle for cigarets, is stolen by a rebellious drunkard, Mr. Jones, to express his antipathy toward the upper classes who have deprived him of the privilege of working for a living. His wife, a charwoman, is suspected of the theft; but before the case reaches court, it becomes obvious that the true culprit is vapid young John Barthwick Jr. who, in a state of supreme inebriation, had been assisted...