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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Would it not be much more sensible to abolish some of these officials altogether or if they must be retained, have them chosen by a form of competition? In order to prevent the stigma of "office-seeker" from being attached to any individual, the contestants should be named by the nominating committee, with the possibility of adding names by petition as is now the custom. This system could be successfully applied at least to the offices of class poet and class odist. The poems submitted by these men should be voted on as to their merit but should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 5/29/1929 | See Source »

...University Hall. Benedict received his S.B. degree from Wisconsin in 1916. This prize is awarded to the winner of an examination open only to Seniors and graduate students. The competition is based upon an essay written in the examination room on a topic in economics and political science chosen by the candidate from a list not previously announced. The winner becomes the incumbent of the scholarship for the coming year and is enabled to carry on his studies under the supervision of the Department of Economics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Benedict Wins Prize | 5/28/1929 | See Source »

...Yale's annual Tap Day (senior society elections), held last week, the first man chosen by Scroll & Key was Woodruff R. Tappen, junior varsity stroke oar, tapped by Paul Mellon, son of the Secretary of the Treasury. The seventh man chosen by Skull & Bones was Waldo W. Green, football captain-elect, tapped by George Harris Crile, son of Dr. George W. Crile, famed Cleveland physician whose clinic was last week a scene of catastrophe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...form an opinion on the merits of the House Plan than to check off the proposed details of operation with the avowed principles behind the Plan. To do this facts are necessary. What the relations of the Master and undergraduates will be, how the residents will be chosen, whether or not Freshmen will be included, and a host of similar questions all must be answered before a definite conception of the Plan can be formed to match the physical progress being made down by the Charles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOWN TO HARD PAN | 5/23/1929 | See Source »

Channing Chamberlain Simmons M. D. '99 has been chosen to serve as Acting Surgeon-in-Chief of the Huntington Memorial Hospital for a period of three years beginning September 1 while 40 other new appointments have been made to the teaching and research staffs of the Harvard Medical School, it was announced at University Hall yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 5/22/1929 | See Source »

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