Word: select
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bingham, as Chief Marshal, will direct the traditional procession of Harvard alumni through the College Yard on the afternoon of Commencement day and will select the Aids and Marshals who will assist him in the operation of the day's alumni program...
...pieces punctuated by a race-track handicapper with a high-school education, mailed them to his clientele. In ivy-clad Eastern dormitories, Madden's essays had a wider circulation than those of Lamb, Addison or Steele. Today Joe Madden sends his weekly bulletins to 3,000 customers, a select fraternity he fondly calls "the mob." He has published three books: What'll You Have, Boys?; The Back Room; Set 'Em Up! He does an $85,000-a-year business, "is wined and dined in homes that some social climbers would give no less than their right...
...rationalist and firm believer in liberty of conscience, Jefferson summed up his purpose in a letter to John Adams: "We must reduce our volume to the simple Evangelists; select, even from them, the very words only of Jesus. . . . There will be found remaining the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man. I have performed this operation for my own use by cutting verse by verse out of the printed book, and arranging the matter which is evidently His and which is as easily distinguished as diamonds in a dunghill...
...student body, a few exist who have been born with snowshoe feet or a mountain goat nostalgia for high places. At Harvard these select silver spooners have already formed the Skiers and Mountaineers Club. But the average earthbound yokel can only watch with awe and a weak stomach their feats of block and tackle climbing, and secretly shiver as they madly race down some crooked trail. The boys are good, regular hot rocks, he will have to admit...
Most of the names on the squad are familiar ones. Homer Peabody was kept out of action last year because of a knee injury, but he won his letter two years ago. Junior Dick Craig, a lanky forward, is the only real newcomer to the select group...