Word: select
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This would leave Class elections in the area to which, under the ever-growing House system, they rightfully belong. On the House level, students can select a representative with a much clearer knowledge of whom they are voting for than will ever again be possible at the Class-wide level. Since the actual responsibility of the Marshals is quite small, and since the House system has changed the make-up of the "old Harvard" to a very considerable degree, it would seem best to remove the anachronism of Class Marshals in favor of a purely House-elected body...
...Each House," says the U.S. Constitution, "shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members." Exercising its constitutional prerogative, the House of Representatives-in the persons of a five-member Select Committee on Elections-last week scrutinized three House elections out of 436 this fall in which the outcome was contested. The three...
Asked whether Soviet scientists select their own research problems, Doty remarked that "people as high as professor can choose their own work maybe half the time, depending on the director of their scientific institutes...
Taking up a cigar box from your table, you open it and show it full of cigars. To convince even the most skeptical, you pass the box around and allow one or more male members of the company to first select a few cigars. After doing this you place the box upon the table in full view of everybody, and command...
Perhaps these directions are not in the version of the play used in this production. But one of the functions of a director is, when an author disagrees with himself, to select his best thoughts...