Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Another point which must be emphasized in regard to this debate is the careful manner in which the final speakers of both sides were chosen. It is safe to say that the system of trials used in each case was most efficacious, and that the members of both clubs feel that the final selections were without doubt the best possible. The method of selection used has justified itself and is a good example to be followed...
...must first consider the parties in America today. The United States are now governed by two immense corporations, calling themselves the Republican and the Democratic parties. Each party, through control of the primaries by the bosses or rings, becomes dominated by cliques. For no candidates can be chosen at the primaries under boss rule except those men whom the boss allows to be nominated, and the men elected at the primaries determine the men chosen to office. What a boss has to have is the control of organized voters. With them the boss has no fear of unorganized opposition...
...first year class of the Harvard Medical School has chosen the following officers: President, David Cheever, Harvard '97, of Boston; secretary, Walter R. Mansfield of Boston; executive committee, Henry M. Chase, Dartmouth '97, of Lawrence, Fred T. Murphy, Yale '97, of Junction City, Kansas, and John S. Waterman of Greenwich...
...there is usually no pretence at replication of any kind. The only attempt that has ever been made in any competion to test the candidates on rebuttal was three years ago, when a scheme was hastily formulated on the evening of the first trial by which five men were chosen. These men spoke afterwards in rebuttal against five other men, three men being then chosen. Why this plan was abandoned was never explained...
...with the exception that the candidates hand in their names previously and if their number exceed twenty by as much as ten that then the men be divided into two groups to compete on different evenings. From these men the ten or fifteen best speakers should be chosen. These men might be asked to enter a second competition where they would be expected to show their skill in rebuttal. At this trial the number of candidates might be reduced to six. The men thus chosen might then take sides-three on a side-work up the question and enter...