Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, when Queen Victoria was swishing around her palace in long dresses. Hardy was then a small boy who took special pleasure in walking through Wessex fields, dawdling to talk with old men as they drove their cattle along the roads. The moors stretched out around the village of Upper Hampton where he lived; at night the wind blew a mist across them, muffling soft sounds, making a dog's voice, searching along some far hedgerow, an obscure dangerous signal, a portent of sorrow. The quiet tides of the country, the slow changes of the land and its people...
...work, to be done by the student without assistance from tutor or lecturer. A test of the reading will be given in the general examination. This means, as explained by Dean Moor, that there will be approximately six weeks in the academic year in which members of the three upper classes will be more or less engaged in educating themselves without help, or, it is added, hindrance from their elders. The great purpose of a college education being to train men to train themselves-a purpose which President Lowell has repeatedly stressed this method is looked upon...
Spring crew will get under way Monday February 6 at preliminary meetings for all rowing candidates in Smith Halls Common Room. Captain John Watts '28 and Coach E. J. Brown '96 will speak to all upper-class candidates for the University and 150-pound University crews at 5.30 o'clock. Later in the day at 7 o'clock the 1931 candidates will meet to hear Coach R. A. Haines and Captain Watts outline plans for the season and to allow the first year men to sign crew and eligibility cards...
Beginning the next afternon practice will be held at Newell Boathouse for the upper-class men and in Weld Boathouse for the Freshman. The men will work on the machines in both boathouses and in the tank at Newell until regular practice can start on the river...
Permit me to direct your attention to a situation which affects at least ninety per cent of the undergraduate body but of which few indeed give evidence of being aware. I refer to the heating and ventilating of upper Widener. With a conscientiousness altogether in excess of the results achieved, the autocratic or powers that be maintain throughout the library a temperature of seventy eight degrees Fahrenheit. This every one knows is ten degrees more than the maximum for comforable living. Why it is considered permissible in the library I cannot imagine. Yet the fact remains...