Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University maintained the upper hand over McGill during the rest of the period, changing its forward line frequently. The blue defense penetrated Crimson territory only four times. However, the third period turned the tables, Doherty giving his team the lead and Captain St. Germain clinching the victory...
...this order devotees of beauty and of Paris rejoiced. The Champs Elysées ("Elysian Fields") are at one end an oblong park of magnificent foliage and at the other a street recently as exclusively residential as was upper Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. Most of the signs which glared upon the Elysian Fields up to last week advertised such products-not-sold-on-the-premises as the Austrian tooth preparation Odol and were blatantly objectionable...
...system, introduced by Professor Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, was designed to give a greater measure of freedom to the upper third of a class, a portion which, it was found, stood in rather small need of the meticulously fundamental work afforded by English A. With this in view the anticipatory examination was abolished, and the students are exempted on the basis of their entrance examinations. This, however, does not apply, it has been learned, to men entering without examinations according to the upper-seventh system, and all such men will be required to take...
...while the riders descended from their wheels to watch Charlie Miller married at the track-side to Miss Genevieve Hansen of Chicago. He kissed his bride, remounted, rode to win. Elemental social manifestations . of this kind appealed to Charlie Miller as well as to the frowsy "bummers" infesting the upper galleries. In those days a frowsy bought one ticket and stayed all week; it was an inexpensive method of keeping warm; sociable and slightly alcoholic. Nowadays the new Madison Square Garden is cleared out early each morning. Also, society has now discovered the six day race. "Get your gloves...
...take advice too seriously," might, with slight alterations, be addressed to members of university faculties in general, and of the College of Arts and Sciences faculty in particular. The admonition for professors and instructors alike should read, "Don't give advice too seriously." The system of under and upper class advisors which prevails in the Arts college is an excellent one, so long as the advisors remain in character, and act as advisors only. Far too many of the men who perform the onerous task of interviewing students bring into their respective offices a set of ideas which was adopted...