Word: select
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University eating at Harvard dining halls are required to sign 21-meal contracts at $10.50 a week, and the food is hardly different enough to create a stampede for select cooking if everyone with weekly contracts were allowed to eat at any of the dining halls. At present, each House or hall has a list of its members, who are checked off as they pass through the chow line. The simplest method would be to allow interhouse slips to be signed for any guest with an eating contract any place in the University, but if Lehman Hall found this created...
...title refers, in irony, to a select circle of the prewar Harvard faculty, to which the heroine is hostess; the novel exhibits the breakdown of 1) the principle of selection, 2) the circle, and 3) the hostess. Miss Howe (sister of radio commentator Quincy Howe, daughter of Mark De Wolfe Howe) works a modest claim in territory on which J. P. Marquand had an option. Her ear is attentive, though incapable of his flights of parody; her knowledge of Boston, Cambridge and Harvard politics is sharp and sometimes subtle; her style is firm, though it would have been firmer...
...saved his biggest rocks for Harold Stassen. Trumpeting "dictatorship," Shipstead hinted at "small, select, secret meetings" with the "bosses in the East." Cried he: "They have prostituted the primary . . . [Stassen] must have eaten pretty red meat at his luncheons and dinners on his trips to New York...
...Council, he should become aware of the amazingly small share of democratic control he is allowed to exercise over this Council, of the pitifully small voice he actually has in this supposedly representative body. He should realize that each Council, through a complicated procedural device, may control the selection of a slate from which 60 per cent of the succeeding Council is chosen. And he should know that this 60 per cent will arbitrarily select the remaining members of the new Council, in the manner of many exclusive organizations that make no pretense of representation and do not label themselves...
...Earl of Halifax became one of the select company (limited to 24 living persons) awarded the Order of Merit...