Word: topnotchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since the Student Council became a popularly-elected body two years ago, the College's political idealists have been hovering anxiously around the ballot boxes, hoping to see democracy vindicated. The student vote would bring in topnotch men, the idealists ventured, and with a real mandate, these democratic Councils would do a better job than had their predecessors under the appointive system. Unfortunately, this has not been the case. Not only has student interest in Council activities failed to show any appreciable upswing, but the voters themselves have exhibited a mighty disregard for the blessings of the secret ballot...
...Really topnotch Harvard swimming teams have not been a common slight in the Cambridge sports picture over the past few years, so the accumulated hopes of nearly a decade will be riding on Hal Ulen's undefeated charges this afternoon at New Haven when they face a Yale squad with an equally brilliant record for Eastern League laurels as well as traditional H-Y honors...
Whatever hopes of victory Ulen has today rest necessarily on a small group of topnotch performers. The Crimson is not really deep in strength, and it is here that Yale has the edge, for after the first man in several events, the visitors will have little hope of placing...
...School Teachers' Assembly" for 40 young people (two weeks of clean living and right thinking for $6) had expanded into an association that ran a school of theology, a correspondence-school university and a publishing house. To the "Mother Chautauqua" pavilion by the lake came U.S. Presidents, reformers, topnotch writers, singers, and actors-a salable, satisfying mixture of uplift, entertainment and celebrities...
...reason for the action, said Ralph W. Judd '51, newly-elected committee chairman, was the impossibility of "lining up topnotch entertainment" by February 27, the tentative date originally set by the Student Council. March 22 immediately follows the spring hour exams...