Word: selects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beta Kappa keys will be awarded to 30 juniors and seniors after the annual elections of the society to be held this week. Tonight the eight members of the class of 1925 who compose the present membership of the organization will select eight men from the class of 1926 and 22 members from the class of 1925 who will receive their keys this year. On Friday night, after approval by the faculty, the entire list will be announced...
...original weathered the storm. The story, in case one's memory has blind spots, tells of an earnest youth whose wild oats flourish forth at the feet of his fiancée. The moral is that all men are tarnished; it is woman's task to select a husband that cleans easily. May McAvoy and Marie Prevost occupy themselves to good effect as the fiancée and the wild oats. The picture is to be recommended, but not with banners and hysteria...
...past five years, have known of various improvements that this period has brought to the Lampoon. A very stable financial situation is but an indirect, yet nevertheless very certain indication of solid effort, both literary and business. A scholarship for study abroad is not offered for dillettantism by the "select club." It is the award of an earnest society which hopes to improve the following technique of its most deserving member...
...remember (the gentleman must pardon me if I misquote him) that the Lampoon was not intended to be funny, or generally intelligible, or anything like that. It was not to be considered as a commercial publication. Its sale was merely a traditional joke perpetrated by a select club at regular intervals. The persons at whose expense the joke was sold were not supposed to see it. In fact the search of such persons (at this point my critic pointed out delicately that I was one of them) who looked for humour in the Lampoon really furnished the humour. The Lampoon...
...unable to take part in this first play because of his absence from College. The Cercle had been relying on Robinson to take a major role, and his loss will be felt severly. Other members of the cast have not been decided upon as yet, and Mr. Perrin will select his cast within a few weeks...