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Harvard's 28 football lettermen will meet in Dillon Field House this afternoon to select a successor to Captain Joe Gardella. There are 12 Juniors who won their H this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SQUAD MEETS TO CHOOSE CAPTAIN | 11/26/1940 | See Source »

...view of the Crimson's oft-repeated statements that it will be impossible for drafted men to obtain commissions, may I point out that the Army has already approved plans to train selected draftees for reserve commissions? I quote from the Army and Navy Journal, a usually authoritative periodical, for Oct. 5, 1940: "General Marshall (Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army) said this week that during the last three or four months of the draftees' twelve months' training, the Army will select promising officer material from among the trainees and put them in special candidates' schools where they will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/20/1940 | See Source »

...regard to the other tool, we recognize that the sources of energy for our actions are emotions and sentiments; but the universities, though professing to prepare for leadership, seem unwilling to select important attitudes and deliberately train them. We learn how to develop technical skills; why not skill or inner attitude? Yours truly, RICHARD B. CREGG...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/15/1940 | See Source »

...Select special areas for standard rubber seedling plantations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Rubber Rebound? | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...which there is a need in the national legislative halls. Two years ago, he failed in his first campaign to carry a strongly Republican district by the narrow margin of only 1800 votes. Tomorrow the people of this district have another chance to end their habit-voting and select a representative who will help to make the 77th Congress a body able to meet the legislative requirements of today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELECT ELIOT | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

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