Word: selective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Each student at Yale shall select not more than five courses each year and junior and seniors whose work is of quality grade may, with the written approval of the class officer or dean, elect less than five courses...
...sitting in" occasionally on courses and sections, by maintaining close personal acquaintance with advisers and instructors, the Dean will be in a position to help select men, weed out dead matter, and keep the interest in advisees and students alive. If his recommendations are considered at odds with the traditional idea of faculty prerogative in the organization of departments, they nonetheless must be accepted as a necessary part of the present bureaucracy...
...things and innovations are often more attractive on paper than in subsequent actuality. The great problem of the new proposal will be to imbue its spirit into the flesh of University administration. While grades, theses, and courses dominate the standards of University Hall, it will be exceedingly difficult to select the basic material for the fellowships and have the winners free from the present pit-falls of the Graduate School...
Like grandstand experts naming their All-American football teams, leading editors of the U. S. select the Ten Biggest News Stories of the year. Last week President Karl A. Bickel of the United Press, General Manager Kent Cooper of Associated Press, and President Frank E. Mason of International News Service announced their lists, agreed unanimously on only three: Robert Tyre Jones's four-fold golf victories. The Columbus, Ohio, prison fire. The crash of the R-101. The finding of the bodies of Arctic Explorer Andree and his companions, which developed into something of a Hearst scoop (TIME, Sept...
...elimination tournament for University wrestling candidates and one for freshman candidates will begin tomorrow in the New Gymnasium. By means of this tournament Coach Gallagher hopes to unearth any talent that has escaped his attention thus far and to select teams to represent the University and the Freshmen...