Word: committeemen
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...Committee on Education will report the bill favorably to the House on Tuesday for legislative action. There were no dissenters, but five committeemen reserved rights on the bill...
When Congress convened in January, the Senate committeemen insisted that their senior Republican member, Hickenlooper, step back to the chair. House members demanded top place for their senior Republican, New York's W. Sterling Cole. Hickenlooper and "Stub" Cole remained good friends, but other members split: eight Senators for Hickenlooper, eight Representatives for Cole...
...admissions Office could boost this prestige by a systematic perusal of every incoming freshman and sophomore from areas in which. Harvard drawing power is weak. Those students whom the Deans, with the advice of the present Committeemen, think potentially helpful would receive a personal invitation to join from Dean Bender. This would add to the prestige incentive and also assure that overly rabid football fans and other who could not judge good prospects would stay out of the Committee...
...Committee's prestige rose in home towns also, the penniless incentive system would be complete. Some local newspaper publicity for Committeemen would increase both their own prestige and the prospects' interest...
Finally, the Crimson Key should consider giving the Schools Committee more recognition by making a place for the Committeemen in the Key itself. At present, only the head of the Committee is an automatic member of the key. This arrangement burdens the Committeemen with some of the Key's work, such as entertaining visiting prospect, while it gives them none of the advantages that Key membership entails. Perhaps a year of Schools Committee service should unlock the door to Key membership for Committee members...