Word: elects
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Controls & Pressures. Harvard's alumni, besides being the main source of its endowment, have the ultimate control of the university-at least in constitutional theory. The 62,567 alumni elect 30 of their number for staggered, six-year terms to membership in the inspecting body, officially called "The Honorable and Reverend, the Board of Overseers" (originally they were all clergymen). The Overseers meet eight times a year, to approve (rarely to reject) the decisions of the Corporation, which is the actual governing body. A sample list of Overseers past and present covers a lot of territory-from Massachusetts...
...time to elect a new "Black Pope." Since 1942, when Polish Father Vladimir Ledochowski died, the Society of Jesus had been without a General. By last week, almost all the 200 electors had assembled in Rome for the Society's 29th General Congregation...
...toughest fights on the squad has developed over the wingback slot. Early-bird prognosticators picked 1943 captain-elect Cleo O'Donnell for the job, which he ran from in 1942 before he want into the Marines, but it doesn't look as though Cleo is going to get the starting nod from Harlow. Until a week ago it looked like a battle royal between O'Donnell and newcomer Tommy Gannon, who had never played college football before--with Gannon holding a slight edge. Then Leo Flynn muddied the situation even further by blazing a flashy trail across the practice fields...
Died. Rabbi Isaac Landman, 65, Russian-born president-elect of the powerful Synagogue Council of America,* onetime editor of the American Hebrew, editor in chief of the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, outspoken non-Zionist; of a heart attack; in Starlake...
When the time came to elect a king, the boes looked to their professional ethics. A hobo cannot be a tramp or a bum. He must not beg or steal or ignore soap & water. Now & then he must work a while. His peers elected Bo Sigurd ("Skeets") Simmons, 56, of Detroit, who hitchhiked from New York in seven days, spent $10 for food en route. Ben ("The Coast Kid") Benson, twotime king of the jungles, ran a poor fifth. There were strong hints that Ben was a "greaseball" and never took a bath. Said one hobo: "He's just...