Word: selectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Toward the close of his Freshman year each undergraduate is required to select a special field in which to concentrate his attention during his last three years. A tutor is assigned to him, who is responsible for the preparation of the candidate to try his divisional examinations in his Senior year. The tutor guides the choice of courses and supplements with personal instruction and advice the student's work in his courses. Reading assigned by the tutor is discussed at conferences at intervals of about two weeks. Occasional written work may be required...
...Select an Ambassador to Mexico and a Governor General of the Philippines...
...Other citizens-such as "Vox Populi" and "A Friend"- correspond freely with their editors. Last week another name, not wholly unfamiliar to readers of newspaper letter columns, appeared in the New York Times. This correspondent "ventured a modest demurrer" to a Times editorial belaboring the U. S. tendency to select its college presidents for various educational virtues-but not for scholarship. This correspondent gently pointed to President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard; to one-time (1899-1921) President Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale; to William Rainey Harper, first president of University of Chicago; to David Starr Jordan, onetime...
...speak, sir, for one hour on any day and at any hour you may select," Mr. Aylesworth exclaimed angrily...
...William A. Muldoon of the New York State Boxing Commission announced that care would be taken to select as radio spokesmen at future fights, persons capable of describing the condition of the fighters without misleading overemphasis on bloody eyes, cut noses, swollen ears, which make "boxing" sound like "fighting...