Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...make attendance at religious services compulsory, but it can not be denied that her system is productive of good results. There is, however, one objection to it,- that it allows an unfortunate neglect of opportunity. Students are too likely to forget that the visiting preachers to the University are chosen from among the most noted throughout the country. To hear them from day to day, and to meet them in the friendly way which is here possible, is a privilege which all must forfeit when they leave Harvard. Nowhere else will there be found such a succession of divines...
...bring Harvard to the top in rowing, Captain Bullard will, in a few days, have a selected 'varsity and a selected freshman crew on the river for fall practice. Mr. Watson will coach the crews from the launch, John Harvard. The men for the 'varsity crew will be chosen by Captain Bullard without making a general call for candidates. He has a good idea of all the available material in the three upper classes, and from these he will pick his men. From the freshmen who present themselves tonight in answer to the call for men who are not playing...
...Committee on Elections reported that the following-named persons had been chosen members of the Board for six years: Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Francis Adams, Edmund Wetmore, Robert Bacon, Robert Grant; for four years, Robert McNeil Morse...
...starred course may be chosen without the previous consent of the instructor...
...choose their studies with the utmost care, under the best advice, and in such a manner that their studies from first to last may form a rationally connected whole. It is believed that any plan of study, deliberately made and adhered to, will be more profitable than studies chosen from year to year, without pain, under the influence of temporary preferences...