Word: selectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose of the Committee is to stimulate interest among Harvard men in the Silver Bay Conference, and to choose this year's delegation from Harvard. For the first time an application system will be used this year to select the delegation, and any men who are interested may obtain application blanks from members of the Committee, or from the Phillips Brooks House. The date of the Conference will be from June 12 to June 20. Last year the complete cost, including registration fee, board, and railroad fare, did not exceed $40.00, and the Committee has announced it will not exceed...
Professor Bliss Perry will be one of the judges to select the winning stories in the Harper's Magazine 10,000 dollar prize story contest, the first competition of which closes March 31. Serving with Professor Perry as judges are Meredith Nicholson of Indianapolis, Ind., a noted novelist, essayist, and philosopher; and Zona Gale of Portage, Wis., one of America's ablest short-story writers...
...Charles C. P. Clark of Oswego, N. Y. By it the qualified voters of a city would be divided into regional groups of 700. From each of these groups, 70 voters would be chosen by lot to meet and, in a sort of town meeting, to select an alderman. The elected aldermen choose a mayor and city officials. Everybody serves until he is recalled, which happens when petitions are presented for calling new meetings...
Collier's promised that from all cities which applied for treatment it would select one, and "put all we've got into it." Except for advertising purposes, the founding of city government hardly has the appearance of being "publishing" in the ordinary sense. But Collier's may be leading the way to "the New Press." Perhaps the press, like the drug store, will become an omnivendor...
...Harvard which of course is more discussed than any other, for it is that of the respective methods of teaching and study. At the English University a student is freer to set his own standard of work than here at Cambridge. His freedom, to begin with, comes, in selecting his college and secondly in his choice of a tutor. It is not meant by the latter that one can deliberately pick out the instructor with whom he wishes to work, but he does select his field of study and in that way is likely to be aware...