Word: selections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exposure" story said that, during a 1973 meeting of the B.U. Board of Trustees Select Committee on University Needs, Silber said, "There have been any number of people crawling all over me for admission to our Medical School and our Law School who have not been tapped systematically for a gift to this university. I'm not ashamed to sell those indulgences...
Radcliffe College will select four centennial scholars in mid-May as "part of the effort to highlight what Radcliffe stands for and the students who represent that ideal," A. Simone Reagor, director of the Radcliffe Forum, said Monday...
...parent publishing company, headquarters is a somber neoclassical building of yellow Worcester stone on Oxford's Walton Street. An unincorporated business without stockholders, the press is owned by the university, and governed by 19 "delegates," Oxford dons picked for their ability to sift through scholarly manuscripts and select for publication the superior one in ten. The press's entire profits, $7.5 million last year, are plowed back into the production of more books...
...centuries scholarship ranked first and sales a poor second. A Coptic Bible published in 1716 admittedly appealed to a very select audience-primarily theologians. Only 500 copies were run off, and the last did not sell until 1907, a patient 191 years later. Then there was Muller's Certain Variations in the Vocal Organs of the Passeres that have Hitherto Escaped Notice, which Charles Darwin persuaded the press to print in 1878. Fortunately, Darwin was not a publishing executive. In 25 years only 21 volumes were sold...
Thomas A. Dingman, assistant dean of the College, who is in charge of this year's housing lottery, said he believes freshmen should select the Houses they would most like to live in, rather than make strategic choices to outwit their fellow students in the lottery...