Word: selectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then Alice begins to grow up, much too large for her clothes. This so incenses the censor that he sends her to the court of appeals-sex appeals. The pressing press immediately takes her up, while the lawyers of the Persecution and Pretense select a jury of frightened white rabbits, parrots, and a sleepy possum that could not think what his name was. The judge, also dozing, is bound in red tape-red ribbons as Alice calls it. A very cross examination is interrupted by more news: PRIZE BEAUTY SLAYS LOVE MATE WITH ICE PICK AFTER JAZZ PARTY IN RICH...
...council will meet for the first time this afternoon at 1.30 o'clock in the Faculty Room of University Hall to select its officers for the coming year. The president will be chosen from the class of 1929 while the other officers may be taken from the whole group. Plans for the year will also be discussed at today's meeting...
...main purpose of requiring two years of graduate study for the degree of Master of Education, which is the chief feature of the new program, was to select as candidates for the degree only those who intended to take seriously the business of securing professional preparation for careers in educational work. The step was a radical one in view of the fact that only one state requires graduate work in preparation for teaching in secondary schools, but the Faculty felt, nevertheless, that it should act firmly in the belief that education is a profession which should require and reward serious...
...examination was divided into three parts, the first requiring roughly two hours, the second 40 minutes, and the third 20 minutes. The first part covered the whole field of English literature in five divisions, each division including four or five topics from which the student was to select...
...were to choose a particular lecture to recommend, however, he would probably select Professor Baxter's talk on "The Senate and the League of Nations" at 10 o'clock in Harvard...