Word: chose
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of the Harvard Union last evening, the members were chiefly occupied with the report of the committee that conferred with a committee from the Yale Union at Springfield on Saturday. The Harvard Union chose to take the negative of the question offered by Yale "Resolved that the power of railroad corporation in the United States should be further limited by national legislation." A competitive debate will be held in Sever Hall on Friday, December 9, when three judges appointed from the faculty by the President of the Union, will select the three men to speak against Yale. This +++ will...
Yale won the toss and chose to take the ball, while Harvard took the north end of the field. A hush fell over the immense crowd, as the two elevens stood there, the Yale men crouched down in the well-known V formation and the Harvard men all eager and on their toes ten yards away, waiting for that blue V to move. At last it started and there was a rush of crimson stockings, a common plunge of crimson arms in among those blue legs, then a confused pile of players, and the great game had started. Yale...
...Bible times one hundred and twenty men, having an absolute faith and trust in God, set out to subvert and did subvert, the thought of the world. It is impossible then, in this enlightened age, to conceive of the influence which three hundred educated men, if they so chose, might have upon the life of their time. The condition, then, of success is that one should put himself in harmony with the infinite Will...
Wright of Yale cannot be expected to start in both the 440 yards dash and the half mile run. Supposing he chose the latter, Harvard has in Wright, Merrill and Pinkham a formidable trio and it is not absurd to expect them to capture all three places. Merrill and Pinkham will have a hard fight for second place with the chances somewhat in Merrill's favor. Wright of Yale will of course take first in the half mile run, while Harvard's hopes lie in Corbin for second and Batchelder for third, possibly Lakin. These two events ought to give...
...Yale freshmen recently chose J. S. Sheffield of Attleborough, Mass., as permanent captain of their class base ball nine...