Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There has appeared the growth of a serious tendency for young men whose professional education in medicine is not now completed or not begun to cease their preparation for national service in their chosen field, and to go into some other work where their abilities could be more easily available...
Ralph Philip Boas, Brown 1908, of Walla Walla, Washington; Ernst Otto Schreiher, Jr., George Washington 1910, of Washington, D. C.; Charles Lawton Sherman '17, of Newport, R. I., and Walter Silz '17, of Cleveland, Ohio, have been chosen as Commencement speakers...
According to the plan adopted by the Military Office, all the lieutenants and noncommissioned officers of each company, possibly excluding the first and supply sergeants, will be demoted at the end of this week, and their places will be filled by men chosen from the ranks. These new men will in turn be removed after two weeks to make room for a third set of appointments, and again a fourth group will hold office from the 1st until the 15th of July. In this manner practically everyone in all the companies will be given an opportunity to act at least...
...those men who are not called to go with the first chosen army, there must come a great measure of desolation at knowing how brief will be the service of these young men. There will not be one person in this wide nation who will not have a close friend leave at the first call. They who remain may trust, with that vague and lasting trust which is given to mortals, that those who are the crosest to them will some way be spared in the blind lot of battle. But such trust is sad and futile when we realize...
...difficult to see how the author, brought up in the critical and liberal atmosphere of Harvard, could have chosen, through such apparent implications, to indict the Chinese as a people in this insolent and irresponsible manner. That the army of China, with its obsolete arms and want of training, proved to be inefficient and inferior to its opponents in her recent wars is a fact, but to attribute this without any ground to the reason that the Chinese are "cowardly" can not but be construed as an act of wanton insult of national character. If the Chinese are given...