Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trick in picking prep-school headmasters seemed to be to find a chip off an old block. Milton Academy had chosen Arthur B. Perry, nephew of Exeter's retired Lewis Perry. Last week two more prep schools elected young men of name and family...
...Chosen from a field of more than 900 competitors, the National Scholarship winners represent twenty different states. Those awards, established in 1934 as a primary feature of president Conant's program to enhance the cosmopolitanism of the student body, are awarded to men of high intellectual ability and personal promise who have distinguished themselves as leaders in extra-curricular as well as scholastic activities. They were discontinued during the war, but were revived last year...
Born. To Celia Johnson, 38, chosen by New York film critics as 1946's best cinemactress (in J. Arthur Rank's Brief Encounter), and Author-Explorer Peter (Brazilian Adventure) Fleming, 39: their third child, a girl; in Oxfordshire...
...Barrett Wendell award, given in honor of Professor Barrett Wendell of the Class of '77, first chairman of the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, was split two ways this year. Both awards are made on the basis of general record, including work in tutorial, and winners are chosen by a committee of History and Literature tutors...
...Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, and Dean C. Sidney Burwooell, of the Medical School, Ralph Lowell '12, a Boston bunker, was elected president of the organization for the ensuing year, succeeding John S. Fleek '15, of St. Louis, Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. '20, also of Boston, was chosen treasurer...