Word: select
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every year on the Monday of Commencement Week, a select group of men in academic robes assembles outside of Harvard Hall and, led by a fife and drum corps, proceed to march across the Yard and into Sanders Theatre. If this group is smaller or less imposing than the main Commencement procession, it is certainly no less distinctive, for it is the procession of the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society to its annual literary meeting...
...clubs, this need must be taken into account in planning," Dodds said. "Although the combination of dormitories and clubs has in past years largely met the needs of upperclass students, an alternative pattern of dining and social accommodations is now desirable, even though the number of those who select this pattern may not be large in relationship to the total undergraduate body...
Coming Back. Deeply worried, a select circle of highly critical military governors, Cabinet ministers and troop commanders held a secret meeting with Rojas. Rojas was instructed...
...Columbia's physicists, Fridays are "Chinese lunch days," when Professor Lee, a gourmet as well as a physicist, takes a select group to a nearby Chinese restaurant, where he orders special dishes. During a very long Chinese lunch, Dr. Wu's progress in Washington was discussed excitedly. Dr. Lee turned to Associate Professor Leon M. Lederman. who works with Columbia's 385 million-volt cyclotron at Irvington, N.Y. "Why not try the mu mesons?" he asked...
...motels. Sprawling along seven Potomac-side acres beside busy U.S. 1, the $5,000,000 motel has 370 wall-to-wall carpeted rooms equipped with TV and hifi, plus a swimming pool for adults, a wading pool for children. Guests can drive up to Marriott's Motor Hotel, select accommodations from a look at 3-D Kodachrome prints, then drive straight to their rooms, guided by a bicycle-mounted bellhop, without once stepping out of their cars...