Word: selective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Advisers would be able to hack the trail through the wilderness of the early months in college. More important and concrete than this friendly guidance, the duty of the Adviser was to aid in the choice of courses during the first year, and finally to help the Freshmen select his field of concentration. The new freedom of the Conant administration, the changes in both language and distribution requirements, with the consequent deflation of prescribed courses, has made the first of these duties more vital than ever before...
...recall his leaving the Chaucer class that way. The former group met in a good sized lecture hall at the top of a narrow flight of stairs so that a prompt exit was needed to avoid jostling and a delayed departure. The latter group, smaller and more select, being largely composed of graduate students, met in an ordinary classroom and was treated with somewhat less contempt...
Critics picked Long Island University, with Notre Dame, University of Washington, University of Kansas, University of Arkansas, University of Kentucky, which last week were also finishing successful seasons, as one of the favorites in the forthcoming tournament to select the team to represent the U. S. in next summer's Olympic Games...
Freshmen will vote today to select their three class officers from the six men who survived the primary Wednesday. The voting will be at the Union between 12 and 1.30 o'clock and between 5.30 and 7 o'clock...
...cast include President Arnett MacKennan '37, Francis A. Goodhue '37, Gaspar G. Bacon '37, William M. Hunt '36, David A. Barber '37, and Marshall Field Jr. '38. All roles have not been definitely assigned as yet and try-outs will continue during the next few afternoons to select those possessing outstanding histrionic ability. Director Arthur Hurley of "Desert Song" and "Little Accident" fame, has expressed himself as being well pleased with his material and Dance Director Bill Holbrook possesses a greatly enlarged chorus of the famous Hasty Pudding beauties, made possible by the largest number of tunes ever accepted...