Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...organizations, and opinions will ride in a special Yard section. Considering the Register, which will be published before the old Register was due by two months, and the Yard section of "314," appearing before finals, Feeney hopes to give the Freshmen more coverage, earlier, plus acquainting them with the upper-classes under the new yearbook...
...Monday the students--Thomas O. Nevison '51, Donald W. Ireland '52, and William V. H. Mason '51--altruistically built a thick gravel sidewalk over the swampland of upper Plympton Street, in front of the Harvard Auto Company...
Tacks & Taxes. How much longer such schools as Winchester could keep sailing, without at least changing their traditional tack, was the question. It costs ?276 a year for Britain's heavily taxed middle-and upper-class parents to insure that their sons can wear the brown, red and black Winchester tie. Though this year there were ten applicants for every opening in the school, Winchester's slight, spectacled Headmaster Walter Fraser Oakeshott knows that the school will somehow have to broaden its student base to keep going in Socialist Britain...
...Founder Wykeham, in fact, specified that his students should be "pauperes et indigentes," and set an upper limit of ?3 6s. 8d. on their annual income, but few real "pauperes" ever got in. For centuries, most of the appointments have gone to the sons of influential fathers. *Another group, the "Founder's Kin," long had special privileges, e.g., they could stay in Winchester until they were 25, but ultimately they became so numerous that the privileges were abolished. Unofficial test of a boy's relationship to Founder Wykeham: crashing a wooden platter down on his head...
...upper three floors are considerably different from their supporting story, but they are identical to one another. The rooms open onto central T-shaped corridors, which need only be followed past the three-way, full length mirror to the nearest corner for the latest in large scale bathroom facilities. In the center of each floor is the smoking room and adjoining it is a kitchenette for morning coffee and lazy Sunday breakfasts...