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Word: select (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unless each committee is to have a representative from each of the ten Houses and the freshman class, Hansler said, a "lottery or system of rotation is necessary" to select representatives from the Houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Ask Changes In Fainsod Proposals | 12/1/1969 | See Source »

This magnificence was intended to provide proper and prosperous Bostonians with an elegant setting for their homes, churches, and cultural institutions. To assure Back Bay's future as an expensive showpiece, select families were allowed to buy land along Commonwealth Avenue at reduced rates. This strategy worked, and the fashionable migrated to the one-time mudflat...

Author: By Deborah R. Waroff, | Title: Back Bay The City as Art | 11/25/1969 | See Source »

When Fred Reynolds organized the Band in 1919, its main function was to support the Harvard football team. As the Band celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year, it has expanded to include a 60-piece Concert Band and a select Woodwind Ensemble. Its members are talented musicians; "hacks" no longer infiltrate the Band's rank and file...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: The Harvard Band: After Today, What? | 11/22/1969 | See Source »

...Faculty-Those supporting the proposal to elect council members argued that the PR system would reduce the incentive for political organization within the Faculty, while backers of the Fainsod plan replied that regular elections would inevitably "policize" the Faculty. The election proponents then retorted that having the dean select members would drag him deep into whatever Faculty polities existed...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Faculty Decides to Choose Council with PR Elections | 11/19/1969 | See Source »

...election then is incumbency and favorable ballot position. Close examination of the high position-large vote ration shows that Bostonians often select the first nine candidates on the ballot- or the first eight plus Hicks. Bulleting, the casting of a vote for only one candidate, also finds widespread...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Boston Elections | 11/17/1969 | See Source »

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