Word: selectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those colleges which limit their enrolment "in order to give a few students a better training" must in the end sustain a very heavy burden of proof; they select the best students, they say, but they retain the same teachers, and one fancies the instruction will remain much as before. I know colleges which have carried the "limiting" fever into the classes, and boast that they have improved the quality of their teaching because this or that course, which used to be open to anyone who elected it, is new strictly limited to twenty or fifteen. Well, it depends...
...consist of four weeks at Covent Garden, London; three and one-half weeks at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan; then a "season" in San Francisco; finally a first, last and only tour of Australia. Thereafter the most skilful toes in the world will be on view only to a select band of pupils in the Pavlova London home. Anna expects to devote the remainder of her days to painting and sculpture...
...Hugh Drover, an opera written about a prizefight and shortly to be produced by the British National Operatic Company. It was said to be a difficult piece of composing, admirably done. H. M. the Queen was so delighted that she herself mounted the stage in full view of the select audience and personally congratulated several of the actors. (See Music...
...about Art, pointing out that Art, like Nature, never dies, that the old masters of today were once contemporaries, a fact too frequently forgotten by their exclusive worshippers, that the contemporaries of today will be the old masters of tomorrow, and that the function of the enlightened is to select them. He dwelt with considerable warmth on the part which Art and its appreciation plays in overcoming national prejudices, and securing international concord, concluding with a tribute to French genius...
...trend of opinion is that every test may properly be used to select candidates?intellectual tests, tests of health, strength, and endurance, personal tests based on evidence of former teachers and on conferences between members of the Admission Committees and candidates...