Word: selectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Matches are under way to select the class teams for the coming interclass tournament to be played Thursday and Friday. Captain L. A. de Turenne has appointed the following captains: for 1924, C. W. Farnum; for 1923, M. Duane; for 1922, F. T. Pratt; for 1921, L. A. de Furenne (acting captain). On Thursday two matches are slated: 1921 vs. 1923, and 1922 vs. 1924. The winners and losers of these rounds will play on Friday to decide the standing...
...judge from newspaper pictures it does not much matter whose you label. Only please choose some one who has no whiskers. I don't wear any. Also I'd rather that the one you select should not be baldheaded. I am not quite baldheaded, but near enough to be sensitive. Also especially since I became a Socialist I am carefully about not wearing red neckties. I don't wear clerical collars or soft collars, and, sartorially, the dearest ambition of my life is to look like an Arrow Collar advertisement. Lately, however, I am looking longingly at the young...
...Secretary. The committee includes the President of the Cosmopolitan Club, Francisco Vela. Each of the five national groups is in the charge of a professor assisted by a student, foreign or American who acts as key man. The duties of these professors are to help the students to select the proper courses, to receive them at their homes whenever convenient, and to act as advisers throughout the year. The student members of the committee assist the professors in any way they can and supplement his work by visits to points of historical interest, factories, and industrial plants...
...wise course for the Democrats is plain. They must in the first place, nominate a man of much greater weight and strength of character than the Republican candidate. Nine-tenths of popular confidence lies in personality; and the Democratic convention must make it its first care to select a man whose record and utterances are sufficient guarantee that he intends to exercise the powers of the Presidency, unaugmented but undiminished. He ought also to be one in whose hands the great productive interests of the country would feel safe. The temptation at San Francisco will be to try to take...
...members of the library committee is going abroad this summer to travel and study in France, and by arrangement with the Union he is to select and purchase a number of editions of modern French writers. At the present rates of exchange a very unusual opportunity is offered, and by the beginning of the academic year in the fall, it is expected that there will be available for Union members a collection of recent French publications almost unique in this country...