Word: selections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anglo-Indian select committee on dangerous drugs unanimously recommended, last week, that the cultivation of cocoa plants for the manufacture of cocaine be authorized in India, that the sale of this drug should be a state monopoly like opium...
Freshmen now have slightly more than three weeks, until April 23, to select the studies which they will pursue as Sophomores. Before making a final decision each student must hold a conference with his faculty adviser and with a representative of the field in which he intends to concentrate. The plan of study submitted must include concentration and distribution for the whole college course, and also the list of courses elected for the first half of the Sophomore year...
While astronomers debated and calculated, names for X poured into newspaper offices. Mrs. Percival Lowell, widow of the planet's prophet, at first leaned toward "Percival" but now prefers "Lowell." Outside of Boston neither suggestion has been warmly received. Astronomers, a conservative clan, will likely select a classical name. If Clyde Tombaugh, first human actually to see the planet, suggests a name satisfactory to astronomers, it will doubtless be accepted. Names suggested last week: Telesis, Noveno, Amos, Andy, Tunney, Pax, Archie, Nonus, Cronos, Ceres, Juno, Vulcan, Persephone, Minerva, Excelsis, Coolidge, Hoover, Jesus...
...killing sparrows, the hunters select a large roomy barn where they know these pestiferous birds spend the night. They climb up among the rafters, choosing a perch where they can have full use of their arms. Then lights are flashed and as the rudely-awakened, bewildered birds flutter blindly about they are struck down with brooms and clubs...
...this year is, "Resolved, That France's stand in the 1930 Naval Parley was justified". This contest is under the direction of the French Department and is an annual competition, which is open to all members of the College. The preliminary contest will be held on April 15, to select seven finalists, who will compete in a public debate on April...