Word: selective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intensely aware that his subject is a growing one; he is better able to communicate this important concept to his students. Research imparts an atmosphere of growth and progress to any institution. Furthermore, the man who has kept abreast of contemporary thought in his subject is able to select the aspects of the most ultimate value to the student intending to continue in that particular field. Thus the combination of progressive teaching and research points the way to the accomplishment of one of modern education's greatest tasks, the preparing of men to take part in work that...
...gifts, especially the gift in memory of Robert F. Simes '85, and the gift from the Class of 1878, a large portion of which is used annually for the purchase of new books. For many years Professor Copeland and Professor G. H. Chase and others have met frequently to select books which properly belong in a "general reading library," and many of the best of current books on a wide variety of subjects may always be found there...
Granting all this, there still remains the problem of the Seniors who supposedly live, eat, dance, exercise, and carry on their several activities in seven separate units; and then must select their class officers at large as if they were the compact graduating class of some small college. There is no question but that this is unavoidable in such offices as marshal, ivy orator, chorister, orator, odist, and poet. But on the other hand, there is no reason why the members of the various committees should not be chosen with one man elected by each House, especially with regard...
...Papen government has a good chance to carry on for three months more, for in the probable event that the newly-elected Reichstag does not select a ministry of its own, it will be dissolved, with the result that new elections will be ordered for sometime in February. This will give Von Papen's economic program a chance to show results. Von Papen has already achieved some success in his programs, notably a decrease in unemployment, the dropping of reparations payments for the time being, and his success in pleasing nationalist sentiment by his demand for equality in armaments...
There is a competition in every state and the two best men appear before the district committee. Each district committee will select from the 12 candidates so nominated not more than four men who will be Rhodes Scholars at Oxford. A candidate must be a citizen of the United States with at least five years domicile, and unmarried. By the first of October of the year for which he applied he must have passed his nineteenth and not have passed his twenty-fifth birthday. Candidates may apply from the state in which they live ordinarily, or from any state...