Word: select
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after 17 months in prison, long-legged Satira had no trouble in understanding an old Cuban custom. In line with tradition, President Ramón Grau San Martin celebrated the end of his four-year term by pardoning a select list of criminals. Among them: Patricia Schmidt...
Only in the last two years does the student have the opportunity to select his own program. A Columbia innovation for upperclassmen is that they may combine their last year at college with their first at professional school and thus save a year...
...subject sits with his eyes closed and thinks, for instance, about a familiar face. An alpha wave sweeps across his brain. In some mysterious way, not yet understood, the wave is able to select the right impulses stored in the memory circuits. Many impulses, representing color, shape, light and shade, blend together into a picture of the remembered person's face...
...wisest thing to do is to get rid of your distribution requirements in the freshman year. That way, you will have a whole year to make up your mind about a field of concentration. General Education courses will both satisfy distribution rules and help you select your future field...
...Belgians select the most promising young men (not necessarily the best high jumpers) and give them a nine-year course of training in the .Groupe Scolaire at Astrida in Ruanda. The Catholic priests who run the Groupe call the first four years of the course "the rolling mill." During this period the aristocratic young giants are subjected to constant surveillance and iron discipline, including very hard beds. "The rolling mill" squeezes out two-thirds of the students and the priests do not want the two-thirds who fail to go back to their villages demanding soft beds. The successful third...