Word: recruitable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weekend's proposals were collected into subjects for seven study committees. For the remainder of the semester, the HEP organizers will recruit students and Faculty to serve on each committee. "They will conduct academic research, hold hearings, interviews, debates, and polls," Elman predicted
...regular hiking companion with Major General R. McC. Tompkins, U.S.M.C., former commanding general, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C., and now commanding general, 3rd Marine Division, Viet Nam, I wish to correct your statement concerning the general's " . . . limp at the end of a ten-mile hike" [Nov. 24]. From my observation of General Tompkins, as we hiked with thousands of (wide-eyed) recruits on weekly twelve-mile jaunts at Parris Island, I can assure you this statement is incorrect-there is no limp. The general does carry a walking stick when hiking which, in his words...
Another of Spedan Lewis' pioneering ideas was "learnership," a plan to recruit university graduates for executive training. Says the official company history: "Mr. John Lewis objected to these elegant imports almost as strongly as he objected to young women with red hair, and it became necessary when he made his periodical visitations at Oxford Street for all red-haired girls to keep out of sight and all young men with incurable Oxford accents to put on their hats and walk about pretending to be customers." But the practice survived, and the chain's present chairman, scholarly Sir Bernard...
Other members of the staff echo his faith in the selection process, which has remained essentially the same since World War Two. Peterson's concept of how to improve the quality of Harvard classes is not to change the basic process, but to recruit better applicants, particularly in areas where few students feel impelled to apply to Harvard. As more recruiting has been done in the South over the past ten years, the dockets have been adjusted and more Southerners admitted...
...they were an outside organization and they wanted to recruit for jobs, that would be all right," said John B. Fox '59, Director of the Office of Graduate and Career Plans, in support of the Administration's decision...