Word: selects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alvin Tobias Hert of Kentucky, widow of the late "Tobe" Hert, former National Committeeman from Kentucky, to the vacant post. To recognize still further the sex, Mrs. J. Willis Martin of Philadelphia was elected Chairman of the Committee on Permanent Organization of the Convention-the Committee which was to select Frank W. Mon'dell for its permanent Chairman...
...selection of students. The thirst for knowledge has become a commonplace. Hundreds of students are turned away (especially by the colleges for women) because of the inadequacy of the facilities. At Vassar, 298 Freshmen were admitted out of 539 candidates; at Wellesley 424 out of 1,337; at Mount Holyoke, 338 out of 680; at Smith, 600 out of 1,835. Selection having become necessary, the problem of whom to select has arisen. Admission on the basis of an aristocracy of brains is considered unsatisfactory...
...yesterday with that of other arrangements for the coming year. Neither the name of the production to be given, nor the theatre in which it will be staged have yet been definitely decided. In all probability, however, the New York playhouse will be the Punch and Judy Theatre. The selection of the Cercle's vehicle awaits the decision of a former member, J. M. Brown '23, ex-president of the Dramatic Club, who has been studying in Paris during the past year, and who has promised to select a play. The date for the December appearance has been...
Although four summer months remain before the opening of the 1924 football season, definite plans for the fall gridiron contests will be drawn up today and tomorrow in New York when football managers, captains, and graduate directors from 50 eastern colleges meet to select the officials for every football game on each of the 50 football schedules for next fall...
Next November Massachusetts will select a Senator. David Ignatius Walsh, Democrat, is the present occupant of that post. He will stand for reelection. Meanwhile the Republicans are planning to oppose him. One of the aspirants for the Republican nomination was William M. Butler. But he withdrew two weeks ago when President Coolidge chose him to head the Republican campaign next Fall. In withdrawing, Mr. Butler expressed the hope that Governor Channing Cox of Massachusetts would be the Republican nominee. Last week Mr. Cox announced that he planned to retire, would...