Word: selection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each of the questions five possible answers are given. You are to select the best answer and put its number on the line at the right of the number of the question on the answer sheet. Example: 0. The President of the U. S. is (1 Coolidge, 2 Roosevelt, 3 Morgan, 4 Garner, 5 Hoover). Roosevelt is the correct answer. Since the number of this question is 0, the number 2-standing for Roosevelt-has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet...
...they should fire President Robinson. The Board apparently divided along strictly political lines. Six of the seven members appointed by liberal little Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia scorned the majority recommendation that Frederick Bertrand Robinson should be retained, but with disciplinary powers clipped. When the Board voted further to select a subcommittee to figure how this was to be done, two members, Art Critic Lewis Mumford and Scripps-Howard Financial Pundit John T. Flynn, disgustedly snorted: "Whitewash...
...supports Conant on Oath Bill stand. March 20: Conant justifies existence of privately endowed institutions at second Tercentenary Event. Harvard present and future discussed. Sees limitations of tutorial system. Suggests possibility of three year college course. March 26: Miller and Dunn take Wade and Boylston Prizes. Packard named to select 300th speakers...
...justified a third term for Governor Herbert Henry Lehman. "Can it be," asked this Catholic onetime State Supreme Court Justice, ". . . because he is a Jew? . . . If, in order to give Roosevelt a chance to carry New York ... he and you must appoint a Jew as candidate . . . can you not select for us a candidate who . . . will exalt the Jewish reputation and know what it is all about? . . . This matter of Lehman seems to be only a pawn in the game of politics to you two who are trying to hold on to your fine jobs." Three days later Tammany...
Five members of the 1937 Album Committee met in Dunster House yesterday afternoon to select from among them the chief of next year's publication. When the session was over, Neil Gardener Melone '37, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, emerged as the successor to Deric Nusbaum '36, editor of the current edition of the Senior year book...