Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Freshman year, the student, instead of sending in a list of electives for the Sophomore year, should choose electives for the entire remainder of his course. Each of these lists should be carefully examined by members of the Faculty to see that each student has chosen a course of study, and not a miscellaneous mass of subjects taken as they happened to hit his fancy...
...declaration of colors must be made with every entry, colors to be described in this order: first, color of handkerchief or cap; second, color of trunks or drawers. It is particularly requested that blue and white (together) be not chosen. Dress to consist of shirt and trunks or drawers to the knee. No person will be allowed to compete unless properly attired...
RADICAL changes in the management of the inter-collegiate contests have been found necessary, and now the whole affair is placed in the hands of a Board of Regents, chosen annually by (1) the students in the Senior and Junior classes of the colleges represented, (2) the Faculties of those colleges, and (3) by a body of Fellows consisting of those college graduates who have taken prizes in the contests, of the judges and examiners, and of a number of honorary members, not exceeding twelve at any one time, chosen by the Fellows because of eminence in literature, science...
...substituted in the place of some of the Freshman Mathematics would be of far less value than their surmises as to how this or that caucus would probably vote. We may be thankful that a more rational plan has been adopted, and that the governors of the College are chosen by better qualified electors than the delegates to the General Court of Massachusetts...
YESTERDAY being Washington's Birthday, the event was celebrated by examinations in the morning and afternoon. We have always objected to this day being passed over in silence by Harvard College, and it is probably owing to our former remonstrances that the Faculty have chosen this neat and inexpensive manner of celebrating an event to which we all look back with pleasure. We have always been taught to emulate the Father of his Country, and an especially good opportunity to do so was given yesterday. As he was in the habit of cutting apple-trees, we might have cut examinations...