Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Pershing's office at the State, War & Navy Building.* Each kept clear in mind his view of the bone of contention: The Navy like almost all U. S. institutions of college rank, limits its athletes to three years of collegiate competition. The Army allows members of its three upper classes? to play irrespective of varsity experience a cadet may have had before reaching West Point. The Navy thought the Army ought to conform with the general rule. The Army thought the Navy was complaining because it had been beaten by Army so often lately...
...would have forty-one and Albania one. A combination of a few large States could always outvote the rest of the union. A genuine United States of Europe, founded on the successful American model, would presumably establish two legislative houses. If each nation should have one vote in the upper house, Germany, France, Italy, Poland and Spain combined could always be outvoted by a group of States with an aggregate population of loss than 2,000,000. It would be the tall wagging the dog. The number of small States in the upper house would be far greater than...
...policy outlined above is one which has been followed by the Dean's Office for the last two years and is in accordance with our desire to regard attendance on the part of upper classmen in good standing not as an end in itself, but as a means to an end. Under this policy, instead of taking disciplinary action on a holiday cut as such, the effect of the extension of a holiday on the student's record is considered. For example, upper classmen are not ordinarily placed on probation for unsatisfactory records at November or April, and even...
...Since Freshmen will on the single holiday of November 11th be governed by the same policy as upper classmen, they are especially warned that cuts taken from the last class before November 11th are taken at their own risk...
...upper room will be used for exhibitions as formerly, but a considerably smaller floor space will be taken up by the desks and tables than is new given over to them. The few remaining tables will be only for the use of those readers who are looking over the displays, or consulting them for small references. About half of the cases will be taken out, and much more space is to be used for exhibitions. In the old room there will still be kept shelves for books which certain undergraduate courses require. The cases about the wall of the upper...