Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting of the Athletic Committee, held yesterday afternoon, Perey Duncan Haughton '99 was appointed head coach of the University football team for next season. Mr. Haughton was unanimously chosen for the position by the Football Committee after careful and extended consideration and, upon ratification by the Athletic Committee, the position was offered to Mr. Haughton and accepted...
Professor G. A. Reisner '89 has been chosen to an important post in Egypt. This is the charge of the excavations that are now being carried on above the new Assouan dam. A large tract of country is soon to be inundated by a raise in the level of the dam, and it is the intention of the Egyptian government to have this territory thoroughly explored for archacological remains before it is covered with water. With several trained assistants and a large force of workmen Professor Reisner entered on his work in September last, and in the first month...
...Dream Lady," in which, though the theme is an ancient one, the manner of presenting it goes far to redeem the commonplaceness of the subject. Mr. W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez's "Fleshings and a White Pony" contains the elements of a good story, but the setting is badly chosen. It seems hardly likely that even a circus rider would pour out the secrets of her heart to an utter stranger with the freedom with which the lady of the pink tights and the white pony is made to tell her story; and the insistence upon the setting by references...
From a source which cannot yet be publicly announced, the Dental School has received promise of the funds necessary for the erection of a new building. The site which has been chosen is the lot at the corner of Longwood avenue and Wigglesworth street, Brookline, adjoining the property on which the buildings of the Medical School now stand. This lot, with a frontage of 80 feet on Longwood avenue and 233 feet on Wigglesworth street, was bought by the Corporation in 1905 for $36,000. It is an excellent situation for the new building, both from its convenient proximity...
...Self-government for the benefit of all the governed." This dream will never come true simply because college men go into politics. Unless college training has radically changed within the last twelve months, it would be a civic tragedy to turn over the government of American cities to men chosen simply because they were college men. In talking to our professors, to our students, or to the outside world that is denied the monopoly we enjoy as college men, it may be excusable to keep up the tradition that there is some special merit in a bachelor's degree...