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Elected student representatives are not likely to spend their time in office quietly studying important College problems and making unspectacular reports to the Dean. Even though this may be their proper function, the members of an elected body will not do it for two reasons. In the first place, each councilman must show the friends who elected him that he is actively working for their personal benefit. In the second place, the type of person who runs for public office and is popular enough to be elected is not generally the type who is willing to bury himself in unacclaimed...
...industry, Corwin continued, prefers not to "wrestle with genius" but rather to use unspectacular programs. He added that a few large companies dominate the selection of the majority of shows...
...line, Yale is unspectacular. There are no apparent weak spots, but neither is there any one position where an Eli really shines. The ends were pretty well taken care of by Princeton's vicious blocking last week; the guards and tackles gauged up to stop Tiger plays but seemed weak when they had single shots at runners
Morris immediately lit on the record of the mayor's administration, and started pecking like a woodpecker on a hollow tree. It was a difficult feat since O'Dwyer had run the Big City in competent, if unspectacular fashion and had managed to avoid scandal. Morris cried that O'Dwyer should have done more. Also, he had discovered that New York had bookies...
People in public health and research work generally do a plodding, worthwhile, unspectacular job that the public never hears about. To give deserved credit to outstanding workers in these fields, the American Public Health Association, since 1946, has presented the annual Lasker Awards ($500 to $2,500 in cash, plus a silver or gold statuette of the Winged Victory). This year's winners, announced this week...