Word: selectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course the present necessity for restricting entrants rather proves that the Committee on Admissions has a sufficiently large number of men from whom to select those best fitted to enjoy and appreciate Harvard. But to admit that any status quo is altogether satisfactory is to admit inertia. So the efforts of the Associated Clubs to assist the college in picking men from the particular community most suited to Harvard tradition and Harvard life cannot be other than commendable. Yet these suggestions are certainly not proof, the metropolitan press to the contrary notwithstanding, that the Reports just published...
...next morning after this information was imparted to the press, at 7:30, a select gathering of Congressional notables assembled at the White House about the breakfast table. There were Senators Curtis, Smoot, Wadsworth, McNary, Speaker Longworth and Representatives Madden, Tilson, Dickinson, Begg-the galaxy of Republican party managers and financial commanders in Congress- and the gist of what they had with their sausages and wheat cakes was the same as what the reporters had had without refreshments the day before...
...chance that a railroad clerk or track laborer rises to be president of the system. It is not by chance that universities select the heads of their boards of trustees and the chairmen of their endowment-raising committees. It is not by chance that Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, now fills those two positions at Johns Hopkins University exactly as Howard Elliott, chairman of the Northern Pacific Railroad, fills them at Harvard University...
Juries drawn from senior classes of capital-city secondary schools will select 50 boys and 50 girls (anonymously) from all the entries, to sit as state conventions to elect one of each sex from their number. The state committees will elect the teachers, who will then chaperone the chosen boys and girls going and coming on the parade that is to stir them all so imaginatively, and so deepen their patriotism, "that in future years they may be bulwarks of good citizenship in their own communities and in the nation...
...permit a column and more for the self-improvement guild. Most of us are delighted and edified by the rest of your scintillating columns. We deplore such an unnecessary attempt to dictate a more careful reading. Has not TIME an audience sufficiently alert and curious and discriminating to select their own reading without question hints and chiding...