Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...football exploits were headlined from coast to coast when he wound up his career at Austin High with a total of 210 points in 1937, Tom Harmon nevertheless was not unnoticed by U. S. college football scouts. In his senior year he received offers from 16 colleges. But he chose Michigan because his high-school coach, Doug Kerr, was an old Wolverine...
...through the winter, the city might charge 10? a peek and so liquidate its record $3,332,000 deficit. Art lovers wanted the unveiling put off till spring, when the plaza would look more verdant and hopeful. Barrel-chested Mayor Bernard Francis Dickmann last week gathered himself together and chose a December date. Director of Streets and Sewers Frank J. McDevitt objected to the whole thing, on the ground that motorists would look at the nudes instead of watching where they were going. But St. Louis art lovers reflected proudly that, whenever the figures are unveiled, a Carl Milles fountain...
...make good teachers--young men and men who never grow old." Applied to presentday academic ranks, this means more tutors, more permanent appointees with a youthful outlook and personality. And it seems this type of teacher is most frequently found in the "middle group." Since the University chose to adopt a long run attitude towards promotions among the faculty, it would do well to consider the effects of its policy on the modern source of Harvard's greatness...
Twenty-two years ago Smith College chose a Scot to be its president. It never regretted its choice. It liked witty, tolerant William Allan Neilson so well that when he retired last June it asked him to help choose his own successor. Last week Dr. Neilson and Smith's trustees together picked another British-born scholar to head the college: Herbert John Davis, a native of Northamptonshire, now chairman of the English department at Cornell...
Yesterday the crews picked by the Varsity strokes had their first workouts, Wilson, Gray, Wagner, Comstock, Penneyer, and Lincoln were the strokes who drew men for the Varsity heavies while Bailey, Homans and Redmond chose their crews for the 150-lb. boats...