Word: lists
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...President forwarded to the Senate, for confirmation, a long list of officers appointed during the Congressional recess. Sent separately was a name most likely to be frowned on by the Senate-Secretary of the Interior Roy Owen West (see The Cabinet, "West Case"). The list, fairly certain to be approved in toto, included Utah's J. Reuben Clark, Under Secretary of State; Tennessee's H. Theodore Tate, Treasurer of the U. S.; Ohio's John W. Pole to be Comptroller of Currency; William S. Culbertson of Kansas, Ambassador to Chile; also five Ministers, a Farm Loan Board...
Further, it touches upon the principle that the Dean's List privilege is, or should be, relative to current standing. The freedom granted by academic excellence is not so great that it should be accorded only twice a year, and it may be so valuable, properly used, that more students should enjoy it, for however slight a time, whenever they qualify in their courses. Such temporary elevation in standing needs careful guard to prevent its abuse; perhaps it was this knowledge that led the authorities to require consultation with the assistant deans before employment of the privilege...
...give latitude to non-Dean's List men when they momentarily reach the mark does not imply a withdrawal of rank from those men who fall below the Third Group in November or April. High standing is too desirable and not to be encouraged by quick reward and too rare to have its perhaps momentary lapse incur a penalty...
...list of the men who were retained follows...
...Christmas recess will begin on Sunday, December 23 and list through Wednesday, January 2. Every student not on the Dean's List is required to attend his last College exercise before and his first college exercise after the Christmas recess. By a recent vote of the Administrative Board, students, including Freshmen, whose November records average B or higher may, upon obtaining permission from their respective Assistant Deans, be allowed Dean's List privileges in regard to the extension of the Christmas recess. The notice appearing on Friday, December 14, that this latter privilege did not extend to Freshmen...