Word: selective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selection of Brinser as the Navy Department's guest on the cruise was made with the general purpose of giving more publicity to the cruise and the R. O. T. C. in general, it having been decided to select a representative of one of the College publications. Brinser is Editorial Chairman of the CRIMSON...
...Edward Pierce Mulrooney, 57, a tightlipped, hardboiled police officer, who joined the force in 1896, answering an advertisement by then Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt Sr. Said the Mayor to Commissioner Mulrooney: "It was your devotion to duty which led you away from spectacle and sensation that prompted me to select you 'for this position...
...reads Trader Horn at a distance of years sees it for what it is: senile drivel touched up with loving skill by a third-rate novelist." Notch attacks the Book Clubs: "The intellectual appeal of the Book Clubs is simple, frank-and dishonest. . . . Here [in having well-known critics select the books] is a calculated misunderstanding of the critic's function: which is to produce good literature of his own on the subject of books, pictures, music, etc. . . . good books are not produced frequently and regularly." For such popularizers as Will Durant (Story of Philosophy}, Lewis Browne (This...
...Education. "If and when the high schools and colleges devise methods which select and retain their students more wisely, arouse in the great majority of them real intellectual interest . . . and equip them for life more skilfully and promptly, co-education at those ages might conceivably be advisable...
...Friday, June 6, the regular business session of the Associated Harvard Clubs will be held to discuss the reports of officers and committees, to elect officers, and to select the place of the next meeting. As part of the Friday meeting it is expected that Professor H. E. Clifford, acting Dean of the Engineering School, will speak on the work of this department of the University. Assistant Professor K. B. Murdock '16 will speak on recent developments of the House Plan, while J. F. Dwinell '02 will make a report on the Harvard Employment Service. In the evening the annual...