Word: selection
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Beta Kappa were quite an arbitrary affair. The twenty men or more in the class who had received the greatest number of As were elected in order of their rank, according to the figures in the College office. No man was considered for election from outside this select group of scholars. For some years to attempt was made to broaden the qualifications for membership and the result was the society narrowed down into a group of men similar to those recently described by President Hadley of Yale as "professional scholars." Another and more dangerous result was a loss of prestige...
...Pearson '11, A. M. Rensselaer sC., J. G. Waid '10, E. T. Wentworth '09, and Professor Winter as a permanent member. This committee shall be replenished by two or three new members elected every spring, to take the places of those lost by graduation. This committee shall select the charter members, nominate officers, and call the next meeting...
...institution known as the song Committee to which is entrusted the selection of suitable football songs can do one of two things. It can select from the large array of songs submitted six or eight of the best and try them out hurriedly at the mass meetings, or it can pick out one or two songs from the compositions contributed which it feels tolerably certain will prove satisfactory, and turn them over to the mass meeting to be learned thoroughly. This year's Committee has adopted the latter course. The circumstances this year practically necessitated this action...
...last ten lectures are devoted to the German civil code: 6--Fundamental principles; 7--Select topics and cases; 8--Law of persons; 9--Juristic acts and their validity; 10--Contracts; 11--Torts; 12--Law of real and personal property; 13--Registration of land (Torrens system; 14--Domestic relations; 15--Inheritance...
...opportunity of electing one or two other courses in subjects bearing on the specialty of each student. In the second year, courses will be chosen with more concentration of work on the chosen specialty, and in this sense will be elective; but each student will be required to select his courses in accordance with a carefully prepared plan approved by the School...