Word: selections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place to start is at the top. At present student representation on the chief committee consists of three major sport men appointed by the H.A.A. Because of the administrative details which concern this Committee, the H.A.A. should retain this right, but of its quota should select at least one minor sports representative...
When questioned about the clubs for undergraduates which he so thoroughly ridiculed in his novel, Fuller admitted that he belonged to one of the select groups and greatly enjoyed club, life still spending much of his time there. However, he asserted that the clubs are "stuffy" when it comes to elections "discriminating against someone because he doesn't wear his hat right or because he rides a bicycle...
...peak membership: 300), and the world was cocking an eye at these scandalous "free lovers" who called their goings-on "stirpiculture." Within the Community, eugenically weak males struck at the favoritism shown their betters, got a skim-milk ruling that they could father one child. The favored, select, few "stirps" took the cream. Work was planned collectively, law & order in the same way. Noting the failure of similar groups throughout the country, to make ends meet by straight farming, Noyes and his shrewd, God-fearing colleagues turned to canning fruits and vegetables, manufactured the world-famed Newhouse steel trap, made...
...burning his hand? Nations DO get something, and enough, from their colonies, so that they will hang on to them. Somebody gets the gold, or somebody gets the trade, or somebody gets the glory, or somebody gets a good naval base, etc.; and generally, while a select few pocket the pickings, we know who pays the heavy taxation to maintain the military establishment. Professor Langer may quote all the statistics he can get, and I still won't believe...
With the zero hour for Freshmen but two weeks ahead, comes the annual scramble to choose a field of concentration for the ensuing three years of college. Each year at this time, the Yearlings come face to face with one of the most crucial decisions of their educational career. Selection of a field is no light, coin-tossing proposition, for a faulty or hasty choice in this matter often has far reaching consequences in upperclass studies. It is therefore essential to a Freshman's future welfare that he thoroughly investigate those fields which interest him, and, by logical elimination, select...