Word: selective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appointment because of a cry of "Power Trust!" against him in the Senate. Of the other Commissioners the President explained: "They are required by law to be mixed in political color and must, by implication, be regional and represent different groups of thought, which makes a picture puzzle to select." To the Senate last week as Federal Power Commissioner the President sent the nominations of: Claude L. Draper, chair-man of the Wyoming Public Utilities Com- mission; Ralph B. Williamson, Yakima. Wash., lawyer; Marcel Garsaud, Engineer of the Port of New Orleans...
Rotary presidents are elected for one year only, must devote much time to presidential duties, get no pay. Hence no easy task is it to select the proper person. Elected last week was Almon E. Roth, business manager of Stanford University...
...that it teaches self-control and physical courage. The "sport duel" is fought "not on any point of personal honor but as a test of endurance of bloodletting." The leaders of the undergraduate "corporations" tell off the representatives who are to meet. At Heidelberg, each member of the most select of the 44 corporations must fight ten duels during his three-year residence...
...college. Beyond those sources which provide the factual basis for higher education. I believe reasonable alternative should be presented. It may be agreed that the claims of English as the mother tongue are paramount from every point of view. As to the other courses which the student will select probably not more than three others during each of the last two years,--both school and colleges are interested in an intelligent choice group about a major of concentration. Even if a college confers only a single degree, its experience may lead to the designation of certain courses as prerequisites...
Aside from this he has contented himself with lending his lecture notes to a few select friends and enjoying the books he planned to read during the last Reading Period. That's the whole story, except for a couple of Pops concerts and a talkie...