Word: select
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...March the time for Freshmen to select a House came around. As usual, the question of distribution in Winthrop arose. Wrote the chairman of the House Committee: "Last year Winthrop was lampooned as being the haven of the athlete. Although it is true that Winthrop is well represented on all the varsity teams, all the activities of the College are also represented." Jack chose Winthrop House...
...single reference to Franco in the papal message dedicating Franco's beloved Valley of the Fallen mausoleum church (TIME, April 13, 1959) as a basilica. In filling two Spanish sees, Pope John has twice passed over Franco's original "short list" of suitable episcopal candidates to select Spanish-born bishops from the Vatican's own staff...
...fully agree with the kids that our lax school system should be stiffened. While in a San Diego high school, I got to select my own courses-all art. Now, five years later, I'm called a beatnik-what I really am is a "stupnik" and am straining in night school to catch up on fundamentals...
...such project is the Nigerian-American Scholarship Program, which brought Nigerians to the University this fall. Last year David D. Henry '41, Director of traveled to Nigeria with a committee to select 24 students to study in United States. Twenty-four colleges were involved in the program...
Food & Shocks. The only way to find out what the octopus brain can do with this wealth of sense information is to experiment with a living octopus. Zoologist Wells explains that the octopus likes to select a "home," a cranny or hole in a pile of rocks, and sit there waiting for food to come within grabbing range. Its perception can be tested by tempting it with bits of food or with things that look more or less like food, and it can be educated by a system of rewards and punishments, such as slight electric shocks. The octopus readily...