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Both he and Monro emphasized that the 50 applicants were a select, committed group. Byron Stookey, Jr. '54, a member of the Faculty committee working on the project, noted, "Obviously, if we have 50 to 75 very good applicants, that is more than we were able to handle in a first-year program...
...Amherst Alumni News, President Calvin H. Plimpton quoted Amherst's application requirements for 1860: "Candidates for admission to the Freshman Class are examined in the grammar of the Latin and Greek languages, Virgil, Cicero's Select Orations, and Sallust or Caesar's Commentaries, Arnold's Latin Prose Composition, eight chapters; Xenophon's Anabasis and two books of Homer's Iliad; English Grammar, Arithmetic, Algebra to Quadratic Equations, and two books of Loomis' Geometry or of Playfair's Euclid...
...present system of allowing the Council to select its own President lends itself least to the evils of electioneering and demagoguery. The Council has an opportunity to scrutinise the records and qualifications of the candidates in an exhaustive (judging, at least, from this year's) session that leaves little unsaid. Before a small body deception or politicking work to a candidate's inevitable disadvantage. Finally, many members of the Council usually are personally acquainted with the candidates abilities and limitations by having worked with those candidates on Council business...
...agency will limit itself at first to passport-size photos to be sold at a lower price than those charged locally. If a customer wishes to select his own proofs, time from sitting to delivery will probably take two weeks...
...statement the next day at Palm Beach Kennedy slapped back at Furcolo. "I think the governor's objection is that Mr. Bundy opposed him in the 1958 election. I will say that for these positions involving national security, Treasury, Defense and State.... I have attempted to select people regardless of whether they supported...