Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boiling Field, Washington. A delegation carrying an invitation climbed out and proceeded to the White House. Mr. Coolidge received them. The spokesman, Capt. Edward V. ("Eddie"), Rickenbacker, made a little "speech and presented the strange invitation-an airplane with a wingspread of about two feet, and on its upper wing the words...
This change, however, does not hasten the day of voluntary chapel attendance. Unable to provide facilities for the upper classmen, the University has ruled that men shall attend chapel on alternate days of the week and on every other Sunday. One platoon will attend on Monday, Wednesday and Friday; the other on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. At stated intervals the groups will be shifted in order to equalize the week-ends...
...single "H" man qualified for the first group, or highest honors, and only one qualified for Group II according to the figures published in the 1924-25 Rank List of the upper three classes of the University. Four of the five men who will lead the major sport teams-at the University this year are in the fifth or passing group, and a large number of H men are included in Group VI, which is "low pass...
There are a larger number of honor men, or those qualifying for the first three groups, however, than last year. Four hundred and sixty-eight men out of the total number of students in the upper classes, 2357, or 20 percent, gained this distinction, as compared with 418 men out of a total of 2293, or 18 percent, last year...
...student advisors are chosen by the committee from the three upper classes. The object of the Advisory Committee is to advise the new students from the undergraduate point of view. Each Freshman also had a Faculty Advisor. In this way each man is advised from different angles in regard to his studies and activities...