Word: select
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Johnston's suggestions for ending this educational prodigality: Let high schools divide their labor, some preparing students for college, others for work and citizenship. Let the last two years of high school be combined with the first two of college and award B.A.s at that point. Let only select students go on to real university scholarship. Let Minnesota establish a sliding scale of fees: no charge for honors students; $80 a year for those who pass; $200 for the slow, $400 for determined dullards...
...outside world demands some certificate of the student's knowledge and ability. He also emphasized the necessity of carefully planning efforts and time if the student wishes to be successful. More opportunities will be offered than can be taken advantage of, and one must therefore attempt to select the right ones to pursue...
...colleges actually do employ men as counselors instead of high-pressure salesmen. The agent of Stephens College, Missouri, acts not so much to get students as to keep the wrong ones from entering. No hospital attempts to minister to all patients. If the colleges would select carefully those who fit into the purposes of the institution rather than signing up everyone who presents himself, the field agent could play a helpful part. When he tries to find out what the candidate wants, what he is fitted for, and advises him as to the kind of place he should enter...
...more than 60 camps (chiefly near New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco) do not actually plot a revolution, but plan "to wrest control from the Communist-Jews when they start their revolution.'' The Times's investigators said that each Bund post has its select uniformed force "drilled in the goose step and . . . ready for any emergency," and that the policies of the Bund weeklies duplicate those of the Hitler-controlled press. No direct evidence connected the Bund with the German Government but Editor Ruppel got a rise out of old Senator William E. Borah...
Macaulay: "In bad years there is plenty of grumbling here and sometimes a little rioting. But it matters little. For here the sufferers are not the rulers. The supreme power is in the hands of a class, numerous indeed, but select . . . an educated class . . . deeply interested in the security of property and maintenance of order. Accordingly, the malcontents are firmly yet gently restrained...