Word: select
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fine Arts, and Mathematics, as well as in hundreds of outside activities, from poetry to political argument. They take up more than eleven pages in the University Catalogue, and are advertised by bulletins wherever there are dormitories or classrooms. There are so many that, to a student attempting to select the one for which he is best suited to compete, there might almost seem an embarrassment of riches. But Edward Hopkins knew whereof he spoke in laying the foundations for a system which has become one of the important parts of the University machinery today. The honor and remuneration...
...read one hundred pages of "nice" literature to find one that is "not so nice." Possessed of one of the Committee's reports, he has his filth carefully listed with a specific statement as to why each book should not lie on the parlor table; he has but to select the book at which the Committee hurled the most anathemas and settle himself for a version of "snappy" reading...
...minority report showed intelligence and good taste: the resolution in view of the number voting, was "not particularly significant;" and the whole topic of limitation were better left alone "until we have before us the report of the select committee investigating the subject...
...think that we ourselves can express no adequate opinion on the regulation of admission to Harvard College until we have before us the report of the select committee investigating the subject...
With its plans for the lecture series now complete, the committee on vocational Guidance is now bending its efforts in organizing the individual conference work which will follow the lectures. From the point of view of constructive aid in helping members of the University select a career, these personal conferences subsequent to the lectures constitute the most vital phase of the committee's work...