Word: appointive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven men will be elected to the Class Day Committee, which has complete charge of all Class Day Celebrations; the members of this committee and the three Marshalls, elected two weeks ago, will appoint the Ivy Orator...
...statement of acceptance came shortly after the Corporation meeting and is as follows: "Harvard University plans to appoint a delegate to the 550th Anniversary of the Founding of the University of Heidelberg. The President and Fellows, in accepting the invitation of the University of Heidelberg, recognize the ancient ties by which the Universities of the world are united and which are independent of the political conditions existing in any country at any particular time...
...Cabinet decided last week to appoint British ambassadors extraordinary who will journey to the capital of every major country in the worM and announce in each the accession of Edward VIII...
...Congress appropriated money to build a suitable home for the Supreme Court, which for nearly 70 years had been meeting in dusty discomfort in the original Senate chamber in the Capitol. Chairman of the building committee was Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who easily persuaded his fellow members to appoint white-haired, dignified Cass Gilbert as architect...
Oxford and Cambridge now appoint "University Professors" who lecture informally on certain subjects, but Harvard's "University Professors" would have even greater freedom in their choice of subject and place of instruction...