Word: selective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Applications from men who wish to be nominated from Harvard for Rhodes Scholarships must be submitted to President Lowell before next Monday. Under the rules of the scholarships, the various colleges submitting candidates must select their representatives by October 24, and the final election of Rhodes Scholars will take place on December...
Since the resignation of Dean Briggs, English 5, his famous course of composition, has enjoyed the migratory fate of the proverbial buck. Originally entrusted to Professor Copeland, who with great fanfare held a preliminary competition last spring to select the personnel of his course from the throngs of undergraduates and the graduates of "Harvard, Yale, and Pomona who besieged the doors of Hollis 11 last year, the course has since been transferred to Professor Robert M. Gay of Simmons College, an instructor of no small reputation, whose textbook on composition, "Writing Through Reading," is considered as satisfactory...
Today a man can take a Tripos in almost any set of -ics and -ologies that he may select, it indicates a higher standard of examination than the "Special" and it is only by taking a Tripos that a man can gain an "Honours degree...
...distinguished company was there to organize a national movement for the reduction of crime (TIME, Aug. 10). Mr. Wickersham brought in a report of a committee on organization. It provided for a National Crime Commission, an informal body of prominent citizens, to be headed by a chairman, who should select a small committee, a finance committee and proceed by indirect means to a war on crime...
Dempsey. Last week, Heavyweight Champion William Harrison Dempsey signed a contract with promoter Tex Rickard to fight two bouts with whomsoever Rickard should select-one bout this year, one next He agreed to post a "good faith" guarantee of $100,000. His first opponent will be Gene Tunney, pretty onetime marine, George Godfrey, Philadelphia Negro, or Jack Renault, lumberjack-in-the-box. Then, if not defeated, he will face patient Harry Wills. "Will you retire if you beat Wills?" asked a reporter. Said Dempsey: "Not me! I'm going to fight until somebody knocks me from under the gilded...