Word: select
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that time of the semester again. Yes, we know it's not pleasant. But it seems that by some sort of natural necessity Mother Harvard is semi-annually made to spew forth students from a number of her Core courses based on nothing more than random selection. In order to limit class size, Harvard professors are often forced to select their pupils by lottery. The unfortunate victims of these lotteries emerge from the shopping period feeling rejected and unsatiated in their selection of courses...
...meeting, Herschbach proposed a system by which students would select a personal information number (PIN) upon entering a course. The PIN would be used when information about the student's grades were posted in public...
Before each forum, Crimson and Brown compiles a book containing the resumes of all pre-registered students. Many companies select their first-round interview candidates from this book, and these interviews take place before the regular recruiting process even begins...
...calls this the most important election of the century. "Look," he says, "the purpose is not just to select a candidate to face Clinton. It's to choose a direction. That's why I'm in this--if only because I'm convinced that we can't win in '96 without a pro-growth vision of the kind I'm putting forth. If the party and the nominee adopt that...
...close personal relationships between 'select 16' college advisors and college admissions officers have been built up over a considerable number of years," write Cookson and Persell. "Despite today's competitive admissions environment, the elite prep school advisors are still listened to more closely by college admissions officers than public school counselors, suggesting that the prep school advisor is known to consistently offer the colleges a steady supply of socially elite and academically prepared students...