Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Owing to the unfinished state of the college tournament, it has not yet been decided who will represent Harvard at New York. The two players and the two substitutes will, however, be chosen from the following list, which has been sent, according to the intercollegiate rules, to Mr. Caswell of New York, chairman of the executive committee of the cup donors. W. C. Arensburg 1900, C. L. Barnard '97, W. B. Cutting 1900, C. H. Dunn M., H. C. Ffoulke '98, J. Hewins '98, A. W. Ryder '97, E. E. Southard '97, and F. E. Thayer...
...following subjects in science and classics have been chosen for the Bowdoin Prize dissertations. The subjects in History, Philosophy and Literature will be chosen within a few days...
...candidates for the University crew remained in Cambridge on Thanksgiving Day and rowed for about two hours in the morning. Two trial eights have been chosen and these will row a race over the class course in the Back Bay next Saturday. Upon the result of this race will depend, to a certain extent, the selection of the University crew. Silver medals will be given to the crew of the winning boat and bronze medals to the crew finishing second. These medals will bear some inscription signifying that its possessor has rowed in University trial eights...
...Yale, however, the practice of giving Faculty assistance to the debaters is carried to its extreme. Their Faculty members may not only furnish references to works on the subject chosen and give material and information, but may criticize the speeches of the debaters, change and amend their arguments and general plan of debate, and even select a team of Faculty members to actually debate with the student team, and lecture to them on the subject chosen for debate. Yale graduates, not connected with the university, who have become authorities on the question for discussion, may also come to New Haven...
...Deleware was appointed in his place. On the way to Virginia, however, the latter died; and Argall, hearing of his prospective arrest, acted worse than ever, All the ills were charged to Sir Thomas Smith, the treasurer of the company, and in April, 1619, Sir Edwin Sandys was chosen in his stead. Affairs under him were administered with a statesmanship and fairness hitherto unknown. Yardley was made governor of Virginia...