Word: selections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doesn't teach) is invaluable for students of Fine Arts. And Harvard should teach living languages, so that its graduates may communicate with other men. This last is clearly the broadest and loosest criterion. Plainly, since even teaching all the living tongues is also beyond its means, Harvard should select those languages which matter most in today's world--those which represent thriving cultures (like modern Greek, which we don't teach), and those which many people speak...
MacLeish's most remembered course at the College is English S, a small select seminar in creative writing...
...brass, and percussion, it plays considerably more than the football medleys and Harvard songs which comprise nearly the total repertoire of the football band. Concert marches, tone poems, suites, and light classical works comprise the bulk of its music. The wind ensemble, as it is conceived, would be a select group of 30-35 expert musicians interested in performing more difficult, but also more musical works, many of them by contemporary composers. 'Cliffes may be included in the ensemble...
Monro also confirmed yesterday that the high-paying managerial positions are given to students by Dustin M. Burke '52, Director of Student Employment and of the Harvard Student Agencies. Because one man has the power to select holders of HSA's top jobs "there are perhaps grounds for wariness but of course Burke is patient, reliable, and careful in his position," Monro argued...
...dealer may place a work on sale, then bid it up himself so that the price for that artist will reach a new plateau. In another dodge, dishonest dealers sometimes hold pre-auction conspiracies among themselves: they buy shares in a work that is scheduled for the block and select one of their number to bid on it while all the rest pledge themselves to remain silent. With the competition thus limited, the selected dealer gets the work at a low price. When he, in turn, sells it at a substantial markup, all the shareholders...