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...Council will select the Shield chairman, and the Annex Administration will pick approximately 15 other members from applicants for the job. The guides will wear emblems bearing the official Radcliffe shield, the Council decided...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Shield Society Will Conduct Visitors Through Yard, Quad | 10/3/1957 | See Source »

...meeting, according to the resolution, the president of the Council will explain the motives behind the executive committee's resolutions and "select a speaker" from the list of members who have indicated disagreement with the committee's policies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Plans Improvement Of Efficiency | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...laboratory on the third floor of the old Central High School in Evansville, Ind. gleams incongruously with the sleek, modern equipment of college and industrial biochemistry. There, this week, a select group of five students will move into one of the most ambitious high-school science projects in the nation: to identify and isolate all the amino acids in ordinary fruit. To pay the bills, the Federal Government's National Institutes of Health last year gave $2,300, the only research grant it has ever made to a high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: High-School Researchers | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

Your story omitted to say that there are ten couples applying for each adoptable child, and that the Damerons happen to be among the nine out of ten families whose requests cannot be met. Like all reputable agencies, we must select the one home that is best suited for each child. Our obligation is first to the child for whom we are seeking a home, and this must take precedence over all other considerations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 12, 1957 | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

...arise: they made a rule that any member who is angry at another must quietly have it out with him before he goes to bed that night. They learned to find emotional outlets with festivals conducted with singing, dancing and theatricals, games and wine. They learned how to select the right man for the right job by group consensus, and to accept the group decision as to what duties or what equipment would be assigned to each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Society of Brothers | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

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