Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practicality must also be considered. This plan creates, as never before, a staggeringly heavy load for tutorial. The tutorial staff must correlate the diverse courses which each student takes, must point out to him their relations and their bearing upon his chosen problem. If it fails in this, education becomes even more of a chaos of disconnected subjects. Required are tutors with a broad but keen grasp of the whole area themselves, and these may be difficult if not impossible to find, especially among the younger...
...some form or other-one proposal being that the Yardlings should elect their Jubilee and Smoker Chairmen, these men to perform a definite function. This eliminates one cardinal objection: that officers were elected as meaningless figure-heads. It still falls before the greater objection that men are necessarily chosen on the basis of a distored, perverted set of values. Perhaps the millenium will arrive when Freshmen awake from their indifference, when they desire democracy earnestly enough to instil a genuine spirit into the forms. Until then, may the last class election at Harvard rest in peace...
...them fairly equally matched in background, experience and ability. An essential qualification for news commentary writing, however, is a ready knowledge of current affairs. TIME arrived as the applicants cooled their heels; five minutes later they were taking the test. A half-hour later the new editorial writer was chosen-a man who can get 92 in a TIME Current Events Test is up with the news...
Since it is considered indelicate to "run" for the Presidency, no man ever becomes an openly avowed candidate. Political tradition dictates that the President be chosen from the presiding officers of the Senate or Chamber. Jules Jeanneney, the Senate President, is 74 years old, however, and Edouard Herriot, the Chamber President, has decided not to allow his name to be put forward. French political observers believed last week that the best bet was a re-election of "Papa" Lebrun...
Advantages claimed for this are prevention of moisture losses (hence weight losses), prevention of "freezer burns," long periods of storage for quick-frozen foods at higher (hence cheaper) temperatures. For its product Dewey and Almy has chosen the name "Cryovac," which means cold and empty...