Word: select
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blood, dripped blood, slobbered blood. It was the sort of fight a reputable U. S. citizen would be horrified to see in a waterfront saloon. Yet last week this primitive performance was billed as a top-notch heavyweight boxing match-staged in New York's Yankee Stadium to select a September challenger for the world's championship. And 18,000 presumably reputable U. S. citizens paid up to $11.50 a seat to watch...
...final election will fall immediately preceding the examination period. The nine successful nominees will then meet to select eight other undergraduates for the Council...
...music itself. Of course, these public demands are answered by corresponding types of musical supply. For instance, the concert of the Oslo University Chorus on Saturday evening catered frankly, and rather pleasantly, to the love which everyone has for ear-tickling vocalism without much fuss about the selection of the music itself. The demands of the opposite type are a little harder to satisfy, especially in the case of a professional musician who, though he may favor more discrimination and enterprise in the selection of his concert lists, is forced to conform to the taste of the greater part...
...remain we oppose curtailment, save in connection with shorter winter schedules. And, in the sports which we are taking from the ranks of "minor" into House, we believe that it is both possible and even fairly probable that in the future some of them might be added to the select seven. Soccer appears to have the greatest chance in this regard now, and, should participation, outside interest, and funds permit, the day may well come, perhaps soon, when soccer will be back in the intercollegiates...
...committees that the Dean is to select will be chosen from the examining boards of several departments. These men will have the duty of hashing over the plans for concentrations that may be presented by members of the faculty, and of submitting these with recommendations for or against to the department concerned...