Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...political affairs cannot fail to make the meeting both interesting and instructive. It may be well to add, for the sake of those who are spending their first year at Cambridge, that the college conference meetings are managed entirely by the students, and that the topics and speakers are chosen by and for them alone. They form, therefore, or ought to form, just as much a feature of our college life as athletic contests or club meetings...
...Harvard Electrical club met last evening at their newly furnished rooms in the Lawrence scientific school, to listen to a paper by Mr. Perot on "Electric Lights." The regular business meeting of the club was attended to for about an hour. Mr. Lawton was chosen temporary chairman and reported the resignation of both the vice presidents. Nominations for vice presidents resulted in the names of Messrs. Wilkinson, Chittenden. Greenleaf, Bailey, Johnson and Lewis, from whom Chittenden and Lewis were elected. After the minutes of the last meeting had been read and accepted there was a report of several committees...
...should not apply to civil officers (a) Confidential clerks should be chosen by those whom they serve. (b) Skilled artisans should be chosen not for knowledge but for efficiency in their art-recognized in Civil Service Report...
Professor William R. Harper has been chosen to fill the new chair of Bibilical literature at Yale. The foundation for the professorship, $50,000, has been given by a few gentlemen who desire their names to remain unknown. The object of the new chair of instruction is, as expressed by the donors, to impart an intelligent apprehension of the English Bible, with a view to stimulating an earnest Christian faith and developing a manly Christian life. In commemoration of the late President Woolsey the professorship will be called the Woolsey professorship...
...Auditing committee elected in January, 1888, continued to serve till March, 1889. On March, 22, 1889, the undergraduate members of the present committee were elected. The member from the committee on athletics was continued, and the chairman was subsequently chosen...