Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...true, nevertheless, that a man must necessarily renounce many of his possibilities in order to accomplish anything in this highly specialized world. His interests almost unavoidably contract: he cannot leave the main fine of his pursuit to wander off into devious ways, however alluring. But while engrossment in a chosen task does reclude the possibility of comprehensive self-development and activity, it is nevertheless true that if life is to be kept wholesome and happy, the sense of a wide horizon must not be lost. And it is just that sense of the wholeness of life including all the fragmentary...
...part that Harvard men take in Massachusetts political affairs is the subject which Robert Luce '82 has chosen to treat under the title "Harvard Men in the Massachusetts Legislature." He finds that over 100 Harvard men have served the State in the last ten sessions of the legislature and from them have come several of the best political leaders of the present. An article of historical value is "Cambridge and Harvard College in 1817," by Charles Warren '89. It is a description of Harvard University at the period when the winter store of wood was brought from "down east...
...Gustavus Hay, of Jamaica Plain, has given to the Library, in fulfillment of the request of her husband, the late Gustavus Hay, of the Class of 1850, M.D. 1857, a number of mathematical books collected by him. These form a remarkably well-chosen collection of valuable standard works on various branches of mathematics. Many of these works, which are already in the main Library, will be welcome additions to the library of the Department of Mathematics...
...third of the Athletic Committee for next year has been chosen and we now await the result of the stated meeting of the Overseers on Commencement Day when the recommendations of the Corporation for the three Faculty members and the three graduates will be presented and final action will be taken by the Overseers...
...advantage of the start, and maintained its supremacy from start to finish. Superiority in power, combined with a higher rate of stroke, enabled them to draw steadily away and win by about two lengths of open water. As a result of the race six men will be chosen to constitute the Freshman four-oar and substitutes...