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...Marvell Snyder, wife of the school superintendent, or Mrs. Bessie Roscoe, wife of the Vermilion News editor, as they finished the supper dishes and hurried around to the home of Mrs. Zella English, wife of the Congregational minister. Occasion was a meeting of the Sorosis Club, Vermilion's select female literary-social organization. For the past five months culture had been almost forgotten as the Sorosis Club and all Vermilion rocked with the scandal of a series of anonymous letters...
Even were every student intellectually of the greatest promise, the abolition of all compulsory courses would be wholly unjustified. It is of course obvious that children cannot from the very first deliberately select their fields of study. The only difficulty comes in the precise determination of the age at which a man is sufficiently intelligent to make these decisions for himself...
...this delicate juncture Ambassador Troyanovsky as never before needed to play the discreet diplomat. There are some things an ambassador simply does not say. Ambassador Troyanovsky said nearly all of them in an address last week to the Society of Old Bolsheviks, Moscow's most select club. The S. O. B. had invited him to submit to questions and give them the low-down on President Roosevelt and the New Deal. "Exactly why do you think President Roosevelt recognized the Soviet Union?" asked an Old Bolshevik...
...other prominent members of the faculty. Now even if the play had been poorly done, I would think the CRIMSON would critize it. Certainly enough space is wasted on prosaic reviews of ancient movies at the University. It may be argued that the play was privately given for a select audience and that the CRIMSON had no way of learning about this performance. The CRIMSON'S managing editor, however, lives in Kirkland House. One of the major events of the Houses, might not, of course, be worthy of this great journal. Yet on the front page of yesterday's paper...
...1880s. They wanted their daughters to be as well prepared as their sons for college. When Founder Brearley died in 1886 they got for headmaster, James G. Croswell, an old-school classicist from Harvard. In 28 years he set a scholarly tone which Brearley has never lost. In the select sisterhood of Manhattan's half-dozen famed private schools for girls it retains a first-rank reputation for scholarship...