Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Brent Dow Allinson '18, of Chicago, Ill., won the latter prize of 100 for a poem entitled "To Josiah Royce." This prize was established by the Class of '88 by an endowment in memory of their classmate, Lloyd McKim Garrison, for the best poem on a subject to be chosen annually by a committee of the Department of English...
...insinuated that preference was given in the choice to Harvard men or other men with social prestige. It voices the woes of those hundreds of unsuccessful applicants who received their yellow slip, but got no further. The inference is that University, and therefore presumably mediocre or incompetent, men were chosen ahead of those sturdy and honest sons of Boston who were more eminently fitted to be officers...
...bill, decided they would rather carry an officer's sabre than a private's rifle, although they had not the physical stamina to carry either on parade, nor the moral stamina to carry either in battle. It is largely such men who are now whimpering that they were not chosen. It need not be said whether their first thought is for their country's strength, or for their own paltry egoism...
...selection and notification of those men who are chosen to attend the senior training camps relieves the embarrassment of uncertainty for all applicants. Those fortunate sons of Ares who are permitted to enter into training have before them the bright prospect of a lieutenant's bars to incite them to their best. They should remember that they are, presumably at least, the chosen among the elect, and that if they in any way fail of the opportunity which has been offered them, they are working indirectly an injustice to other men who were rejected that they might be chosen...
Those men who wish to receive instruction with a view to becoming assistant bayonet instructors in their companies will report to M. Leslaby in the Fencing Room in Hemenway Gymnasium today at 12 o'clock. Four assistants, preferably men with previous experience, will be chosen to help in the bayonet drills which are to start next week. In addition to the regular U. S. Army drill, instruction will be given in the method of handling the weapon at present employed by the French...