Word: selectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally, no one can intelligently select his field of concentration who does not know quite a bit about himself, what he can do and what he likes...
...large university like Harvard offers limitless possibilities for education in Emerson's sense of the word. Competitive contact with one's fellows in some form of undergraduate activity will often do more to "bring a man out" and help him find himself than any course he could possibly select in the University catalogue. It is not the purpose of this editorial to urge the benefits of extra-curriculum activities against those of scholarly devotion. It is the conjunction of the two that is essential, and this is the notable lack among a certain group of men of high standing...
...jury composed of seven judges will select the best play among those offered, which may be on any subject, provided it is in dramatic prose. The contest is open to amateurs only--that is, to writers who have never had a play produced in New York...
...committee of 10 Seniors and Sophomores select the 24 most beautiful girls from the Sophomore Class to carry the chain. While beauty is the prerequisite, popularity is sometimes reckoned as a degree of beauty. On the morning of Class Day, the remainder of the Sophomore Class go into the nearby fields, pick many carloads of daisies which they plait into a chain. Meanwhile, the 24 rest, or busy themselves arranging shoulder pads on which to bear the weight of the Chain (about seven pounds for each shoulder). In the afternoon, guests assemble before the stage of the Vassar outdoor theatre...
When Cecil Rhodes established his endowment to enable a select group of American young men to study at Oxford, he set up a greater claim to the gratitude of posterity than he had done by all his brilliant achievement as an empire builder in South Africa: That endowment was a modest beginning. It had nothing of the popular glamor of a Cape to Cairo project, but it was of great significance to the future progress of the world...