Word: selections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris, in Shanghai, or Buenos Aires. On the other hand, special talent for drafting, tact in negotiation and just estimation of political situations would be recognized by work on international conferences and the positions of Counselor of Charge d'Affaires in great capitals. From either branch the President may select Ministers and Ambassadors, and there are at present some thirty who have been so chosen...
Professor F. C. Packard '20 will be in Holden Chapel on Monday, April 27, at 3 o'clock to select the Harvard delegate to the annual Intercollegiate Poetry Convention which is sponsored by the Speech Departments of several Eastern colleges for the fostering of oral reading of good verse. The convention will take place this year on May 9 in the evening at Wellesley College...
...that at a given distance of time the Union would contain so many millions of people, with wealth valued at so many millions of dollars, became thenceforward chiefly concerned to know what kind of people these millions were to be. They were intelligent, but what paths would their intelligence select? They were quick but what solution of insoluble problems would quickness hurry? They were scientific, and what control would their science exercise over their destiny? They were mild, but what corruptions would their relaxation bring? They were peaceful, but by what machinery were their corruptions to be purged? What interests...
...week wore on, the swarms grew thicker. They swept through Mississippi, into Arkansas and Louisiana. Hordes of the stinging females would select a mule or cow, settle on it, ride out its frantic, bucking efforts to escape, and leave it dead. Reports began to come in: 125 mules killed in Coahoma County alone. There two days later were 400 mules and cattle dead. Around Helena, Ark., 500 farm animals expired in the lowlands. More & more deaths were recorded to the southward...
Charles Crehore Cunningham '32, of Milton, president of the Junior Class, has been selected to be head Junior usher by the Senior Class Day Committee according to an announcement made yesterday by J.N. Trainer. Jr. '31, chairman. Cunningham will select his 85 assistants later in the year...