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Cater, former Editorial Chairman of the CRIMSON, is secretary of Phi Beta Kappa and a member of the Student Council and the Liberal Union, and was chosen as Harvard delegate on May 24 after a University-wide competition...
...allowed to exercise over this Council, of the pitifully small voice he actually has in this supposedly representative body. He should realize that each Council, through a complicated procedural device, may control the selection of a slate from which 60 per cent of the succeeding Council is chosen. And he should know that this 60 per cent will arbitrarily select the remaining members of the new Council, in the manner of many exclusive organizations that make no pretense of representation and do not label themselves a "Student Council...
Ellison hopes to go to press next February with an initial run of 600,000 copies. (He estimates that the magazine can break even on a circulation of 450,000.) The planning board has already chosen a title, but is keeping it a secret from all but nine of the 212 bosses. The writers and artists elect a board of directors (Hersey is president) which can turn Ellison or any other editor out, if they don't like what he is doing with their money and their work. The editor promises to "grant every man his right...
Rhodes expected his beneficiaries to study hard, and they do; 81.5% of the U.S. scholars since 1931*have taken "Firsts" or "Seconds" at Oxford. Rhodes also wanted the chosen ones to play hard. Though nobody gets a Rhodes just because he is an athlete, or loses one because he is not, 85% compete on Oxford college teams...
...Rhodes allotted two scholarships to each state. Some biographers claim that Rhodes thought there were only 13 states. *Before 1918, appointments were handed out by states. Now the best candidates are chosen from six-state districts, a violation of Rhodes's will which has improved the caliber of scholars...