Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whereupon General Goring became so enraged that the only thing that averted a complete diplomatic break was a hasty trip to Berlin by no less a person than King Gustav V, who pinned on Herr Göring's bulging chest the highest Swedish military honor-the Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword...
...foundations, Mr. Hayden by last week had given money to 130 institutions, hundreds of scholarships in various schools and colleges, had spent $2,500,000 and enjoyed every dollar of it. Among recipients of Hayden money were: Boston University, Boys' Club of New York, Catholic Youth Organization, Red Cross, Salvation Army, Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, M. I. T. (Charles Hayden's alma mater), Columbia, Stevens Institute, Fordham, New York University. No favorer of races or creeds, Mr. Hayden gave $25 to the Harlem Eye and Ear Hospital...
...picking applicants, Housemasters attempt roughly to choose a cross-section of the class; in this they are aided by the Central Committee on House Admissions, which provides them with a table showing the make-up of the class according to such criteria as concentration fields, schools, and academic standing...
Although the Houses aim at a cross-section as a desirable goal, they nevertheless differ considerably in composition. For example, Eliot House at present has a larger proportion of men from the "exclusive" private schools than the other Houses, and Lowell has a larger percentage in the upper reaches of the rank list than has the college as a whole. These are indications of certain differences in entrance criteria, although the Housemasters have declined to state these discrepancies, since such a revelation might smack of competitive advertising...
...good they are. The Committee's chief function is to take the names of the men not admitted by the House of their first choice and bring these names to the attention of under-applied Houses, with the end in view of aiding Housemasters to achieve an approximate cross-section...