Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...club is made up of a group of men chosen from the band. Twenty new members are to be elected to the club tonight...
...also been announced that H. L. Holland '28, who will be in the Law School next year, has been chosen to conduct the band during the coming season. The University Band will play at the Dartmouth and Yale hockey games and at the Harvard-Dartmouth-Cornell triangular track meet...
...citizens before it reaches some suspect later found both innocent and dead. The weapons of prohibition agents have taught the country the menace of the armed pursuit of offenders. Both the security of Texas banks and an offective, sensible handling of social enemies are laudable ends, but the means chosen by these bankers to attain them must, at least, be questioned...
...multilateral pact does not interfore with the League covenant or other alliances, because it an aggressor nation breaks it, the peace is no longer valid, and it may he attacked. What it does do, is to make nations liable merely on the grounds of political honor, an unsecured liability chosen instead of the punitive assets of the League, which seems, to continue the metaphor, bad business...
This idea, carried to its logical conclusion, is the basis of Dr. Meiklejohn's experimental college at the University of Wisconsin. To that institution are admitted a limited number of carefully chosen undergraduates, to study under the guidance of tutors, with few lectures, and fewer examinations. But the curriculum, although there is much opportunity for individual reading, is definitely fixed for all. And in these required courses, the emphasis is not upon facts but upon criticism and comparison. The field of knowledge is regarded in its entirely. Whole civilizations, whole movements of thought, are studied, and the final comparison...