Word: selection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trial dinghy races to select the skippers for the weekend competition will be held this afternoon at the Tech Sailing Pavilion beginning at 1:45 o'clock. These races are open to both Freshmen and Upperclassmen...
...Harvard Press placed only one book in the select list, against four publications from Yale. This was William Browsters "Concord River," a collection of notes on nature edited by Smith O. Dexter...
...company, Eastern Air Lines, Inc., was Eddie Rickenbacker. His backers include Harold S. Vanderbilt and the Wall Street investment firms of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and Smith, Barney & Co. Last week these two firms offered 416,666 shares of common stock at $10 a share to a select group. By week's end some 75% of the stock had been taken up. If the rest remains unsold, the general public may get a crack at it at a slightly higher price...
...exact definition of an adviser is equivocal, some idea of what constitutes one can be gained from the varied qualities demanded in his selection. The foremost qualification is interest in dealing with human beings; next come approachability, or the rare biological element of appeal, and insight into the total personality. To obtain response, an adviser must set up confidence through frankness, through fixing each man's aim and helping him to reach it. He ought also to gauge as best he can the attitude of the advisce toward his new environment. With these standards raised, there lingers the question...
Edward M. Rowe '27 will select 12 of the contestants tonight, and these men will compete later for the six team positions, the losers becoming alternates. The Jefferson Coolidge fund provides a prize of $100 for the winner of tonight's tryout. Although the prize has been split three ways in previous years, the whole sum can be awarded...