Word: selective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moliore, Corneille, Racine, Begumarchata, and Hestand. Last fall "L'Amore McDocin" by Moliere was most successfully produced by members of the circle, and in their intention for present another play in December. Robert A. Turner '37, and Howard R. Patch '33 are in charge of a committee to select a play, and as soon as it is chosen the casting is expected to commence. Mr. Monroo Stearns, who has managed other Cercle plays in the pant, has been selected as director...
...skater, that he was Charles Augustus Lindbergh's host in London after the Spirit of St. Louis flight, that he won a socialite tennis championship last year at Dinard, and that he painstakingly answered as Secretary of State for India over 15,000 questions asked him by the Joint Select Committee of the House of Lords and the House of Commons which finally produced the India Bill. Though every Indian party now opposes the new Constitution which was so largely of Sir Samuel Hoare's making, he said of himself on becoming Foreign Secretary: "I think that scores of people...
Automatically, of course, many of the best of the dismally few great American poems have been included but a little more effort in trying to select only those would make the volume more interesting. We miss Ezra Pound, Archibald MacLeish, and Stephen Vincent Benet among the modern group and individual selections such as some of Emily Dickinson's "Life" beside the few cantos included here, Sidney Lanier's "The Marshes of Glynn", and Millay's "Wild Swans". To make room for these some of the emphasis could have been removed from Bryant and Longfellow and the volume would have been...
...Empire's great specialist on precisely this issue which is India's economic crux. He delved into all its aspects for two years (1926-28) as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Indian Agriculture. Both Houses of Parliament then appointed him Chairman of their Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform (1933-35), which to all intents and purposes wrote India's new Constitution...
...Students' International Union, they had been waiting all summer for such a chance. Almost as excited as her charges was the Union's founder and angel, Mrs. Alexander Murray Hadden. A statuesque Manhattan socialite with white hair and blue saucer eyes, Mrs. Hadden every year invites a select group of U. S. colleges to give one or more of their students a $300 scholarship at the Union. To furnish contacts she then corrals an equal number of foreign students. Ostensibly the Union is devoted to a serious eight-week study of international relations. But Mrs. Hadden...