Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...determined by a majority vote of the people present at an "editorial policy" meeting. These include everybody on the editorial board and anyone else on the paper who happens to be interested in showing up. Sometimes the issue is minor, and only a handful are present. More often--on subjects like the War Memorial, or the tuition boost, or the HAA's seating system--anywhere from fifteen to twenty-five people appear. Usually at least one or two of them are particularly well-informed on the subject at hand, having discussed it with Dean Bender, or Director of Athletics Bingham...
...undergraduate of sufficiently bland racial, religious and financial status awaits the call of brotherhood. The insufficiently bland will join the Commons Club . . . The college president turns resolutely away from the whole subject: these are matters of taste and congeniality for the boys to settle among themselves-and besides, the college could never afford to take over all that real estate at today's prices...
...busy little Columbia River port of Astoria, Ore. (pop. 15,000), almost everybody makes his living by fishing-chiefly for salmon. Last week the school board had approved a new two-year course at the high-school level. Subject: fishing...
...with genuine skill. The things this young writer can do with the novel form are astonishing. But all too often she writes like a bright student mimicking the best models. She is especially irritating when she adopts the frenzied style of the sort of "woman novelist" who worries her subject and prose to death by merely vibrating portentously when she should be letting her narrative move along. If Elizabeth Spencer, a writer of large and natural talents, can find her own voice, she may develop into an important American novelist...
...Wednesday morning Archibald MacLeish, a member-at-large of the Commission, will lead a general discussion on the subject: "How Can UNESCO Contribute to Peace...