Word: supplement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...votes is obviously unpractical, because of the danger of the body's being entirely too unwieldy. The committee might well be limited to the ten or twelve receiving the highest number of votes, while a minimum number of nominations should be set at fifteen, empowering the Student Council to supplement this number if the class does not fulfill the quota by petitions. The two men with the highest numbers of votes would become President and Vice-President. To award the office of Secretary-Treasurer to the third man has its dangers; he might very conceivably be totally unfitted...
...photographic competition election is based on the number of pictures published in the fortnightly pictorial supplement and on the work done in the dark room. Men must supply their own cameras, but complete developing and printing equipment is available for use in the Crimson Building...
...rating scale is not intended to supplant the regular system of credits leading to degrees, but to supplement it. The adoption of the scale, say the authorities of the School, is an acknowledgment of the fact that when they have the record of a man's grades in his courses, they do not know all they should in order to recommend him for a job. Such recommendations will be made henceforward on the basis of the rating scale as well as of the man's grades in classroom work...
...permanent home in Paris, where it may continue the work that made it so valuable during the war. The Board of Trustees has inaugurated a campaign to secure a donor or a group of them, for the building. In addition to this, an endowment fund is being raised to supplement the income from the membership fees paid by American universities and colleges for the maintenance of the general work of the union...
Such personal experience as I have had, has served only to emphasize a conviction that the motion picture record must replace the conventional' "class photographs," or at least supplement them. For such a record preserves the actual life and reality of things; it shows the individual as he really was, and not simply as he looked to the eye of a camera planted four points north by northwest of a dignity-fighting countenance...