Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dealing with the 824 applications submitted for only 673 places, three things chiefly influence the House Masters and the Central Committee. They are: the widely spread price range, the various school groups, and the scholastic standing of the applicants. In recent years this last has taken on an importance which many of those applying have failed to recognize for the majority of room requests fall into the lower middle range and the House Masters are naturally prone to select those in higher standing among the Freshmen...
...their conferences with students. If a Master was unable to admit the applicant, he referred the student's application to the Master of the House of second choice. Only those applications which were not accepted by either the House of first or second choice were sent to the Central Committee. The Central Committee compared the records of the men not placed with the records of the men in the various price categories accepted by the House of first or second choice and called to the attention of the Masters the applications of men who seemed to have prior claim...
...suffers in American eyes from a slowness of pace and a naivete which make it heavy at times. It has considerable photographic beauty and a very satisfying musical score. The chief merit of the picture, however, must be attributed to the compellingly intense performance of Hedy Kiesler in the central role of the young girl. There is a roughness and occasional incoherency which are probably the result of virtuous scissors...
Freddie Bartholomew, 11, George Arliss of child actors, gets an estimated $1,250 a week from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer because he impersonates immature characters like the heroes of David Copperfield, Little Lord Fauntleroy and Professional Soldier with incongruously mature dignity. Last week, Cinemactor Bartholomew was the central figure in as incongruously childish a legal mess as Hollywood, which specializes in such affairs, has produced in a long time...
...great past, looked down once a year on a second-rate carnival. The rest of the year Venetian amusements were penny-pinching, snuff-taking, gambling and adultery for the 40 ruling families. Venice's maritime power and the Mediterranean's role as the world's central sea had been ended by the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope route to the Orient. A declining 17th Century Venice could not defend outlying possessions. Despoiled 18th Century Venice survived on the remnants of its great traders' fortunes, and the city slowly, deliberately died, as Austria...