Word: select
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playoffs to select a championship undergraduate bridge pair to represent the University in the first annual Intercollegiate Invitation Bridge Championship will be held early next week, Robert J. Glaser '40 announced last night...
Gracie Allen's dippiness is a stage prop that accounts for most of Burns & Allen's reported $9,000-a-week radio salary. Off-mike, she is not always so dippy. As a guest on Information Please last summer, she stacked up favorably with the most select experts. On one Screen Guild show she played opposite James Cagney in a serious Irish playlet and did it well. One year U.S.C. psychology students, professing to find considerable sense behind Gracie's nonsense, voted her Hollywood's most intelligent actress...
Broberg was good enough to break the individual scoring record for the second time in his two years of varsity competition and for the second year in a row to become the only unanimous choice of the seven coaches of league teams who annually select the team for the Associated Press...
...rostrum is taken by a number of deans and teachers this morning, every Yardling ought to be in the audience. For the choice of a field of concentration is perhaps the most important decision the undergraduate has to make. All too often students, taking the line of least resistance, select the field which interested them most in high-school, or the one which seems to be most "practical." Only infrequently is any real consideration given to other possibilities. If today's meeting serves merely to jar the freshman into thinking about these alternatives, it will be worth its length...
...correct excessive concentration by backing the "area" proposal, which would involve distribution of courses among three divisions--natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Perhaps an institutional reform along these lines will take place some day soon; meanwhile the Class of 1943 must do its own reforming. Its members should select their distribution courses with an eye to sampling each of the three areas--for those areas exist, even if they have as yet no formal recognition. And the choice of a field of concentration should also involve care; every possibility, from Art to Zoology, deserves at least to be thought...