Word: appointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thus a definite, but unpleasant surprise to read of the Student Council's recent appointment to its ranks of the chief non-Council member of the Freshman Election Committee; namely, Richard W. Kimball. At the recent open meeting of the Student Council, which I attended, Mr. Kimball smoothly assured the Council that the election had proceeded perfectly. That group, without pausing itself to investigate, resolved to congratulate Mr. Kimball for his "outstanding ability, special skills, and particular knowledge complementary to the functions of the Council." I find these special skills incompatible with the past record of the Freshman Election Committee...
...Council, noting recent College criticism of Parietal Rules, voted to appoint a committee at its next meeting to make a thorough investigation of the present House and Yard rules, with an eye to revision toward leniency...
...Park to enjoy the freedom of private citizenship, but that I did not think that was good enough in the dangerous days that lay ahead. He looked wan and tired, and it hurt me to say what I had to say. ..." Roosevelt never told him he was going to appoint him Ambassador. A few days later Winant read the news in the papers...
Political "pork barreling" on the Committee has resulted in an inadequate educational system dominated by unqualified and uninterested men. Politics and education are ill suited to each other, and when they mix, education most certainly suffers. Since it is traditionally impossible to appoint educators to the Cambridge School Committee, the Cambridge Civic Association has endorsed only those candidates who seem eminently qualified and who have little interest in setting up a soft touch for a political erony...
...stone deaf, an inkling of what was going on. His paunch protruding majestically, he carried himself to the middle of the square like a ship in full sail and shouted: "Children, children, don't let's be children. You are citizens. If you have a disagreement, appoint a committee. Don't make Fiumicino the laughing stock of the countryside...