Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...constructive work in one department of study. . . ." On the other side there are many educators like Professor Roots who would eliminate from college at the end of two years about half the student body and apply the Tutorial system, or same form of it, to the remainder in the upper two years...
Further, the naval conference proposal will undoubtedly prove the card which will turn the trick in the Administration's struggle with House and Senate leaders over more cruisers. Speaker Longworth undoubtedly had the upper hand in regard to the facts of America's comparative naval competition. Mr. Coolidge with unusual dexterity has produced at exactly the psychological moment the more reasonable solution of limitation all round. The consternation yesterday of the paper patriots as reported in the metropolitan press was highly amusing. The manner in which they rushed to the support of the proposal and at the same time tried...
Thus, amid the typical barbaric splendor beloved of Magyars, opened last week the newly constituted Hungarian Upper House (TIME, Nov. 29). Not since World War days has such magnificence dazzled at Budapest. In the galleries sat the Habsburg Archduchesses, ablaze with gems. They even more than the men, hoped that the new Hungarian Parliament would take up at last the question of who shall sit upon the Throne of Hungary, now held by the Hungarian Regent, Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya. Brusque, sailor-like, Admiral Horthy opened Parliament last week with a short speech, crisp, noncommittal...
...clock this afternoon, Harvard's seventy-third crew season will be launched with a meeting for all upper-class candidates in the Smith Halls Common Room. Coach E. J. Bown '96, successor to last year's University mentors, E. A. Stevens and R. A. Haines, will be the principal speaker, and will be preceeded by Captain Geoffrey Platt '27 in talking to the candidates...
...Jefferson Park Branch of The Boys Club will represent a total investment of $800,000 and will provide for boys on the upper east side social educational and recreational activities similar to those provided for boys of the lower east side at the Tompkins Square Building of The Boys Club which has been in continuous service for fifty years. The new Branch will be the largest building devoted to boys club work when completed and will include the most modern features as to swimming pool, gymnasium, class, club and game rooms and other equipment. The district in which...