Word: selectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rickard, promoter, conferred an hour with Harry Wills, Negro heavyweight, after which he said: "Wills agrees to fight for me any place in the United States on dates to be selected by myself, against heavyweights I will select, leading up to a meeting with Dempsey if Wills qualifies...
...State of Michigan will hold its Industrial Exposition. The exhibition will include 180,000 square feet of floor space, farm machinery, candy, a Tampa band, electric motors, jewelry and Bernarr Macfadden. Mr. Macfadden, publisher of six magazines "with over two million circulation," is to be there in person to select the winner of a beauty contest; or rather, to choose a girl to be "America's Diana." Why is Mr. Mcfadden chosen for this purpose rather than any other famed publisher-William R. Hearst, or Cyrus Curtis, for example? The answer is that Mr. McFadden is a specialist...
Squash sections will be discontinued at the end of next week, tennis beginning on April 7, when the courts on Soldiers Field will have been commissioned, and ready for use. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons these courts will be set aside exclusively for the use of Freshmen who select tennis as their form of required exercise. Last fall, overflow periods on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday were used, and the Department of Physical Education has announced periods will be established those days if necessary. W. H. Sayer 2L., who has been in charge of squash at the Freshman Athletic Building...
...negative, W. D. Morton '27, emphasized that success in the field of concentration presages later success in life, and quoted to show that the chances were 300 percent greater for late success if men had high schol- astic attainments. "It is necessary to use learned methods to select those who will be our leaders," he concluded...
...Charles William Eliot found Harvard a select little New England college," declared Professor C. T. Copeland yesterday. "After forty years he left it the most important seat of learning in the Western Hemisphere. In the work of transformation he had the help of well-known scholars and administrators, eminent among them Dunbar and Gurney. But Mr. Eliot was the original, irresistible force. He is a great man, the title of whose greatness rests mainly on his creation of the first university in America...