Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revolt against Mexico, Texas declared her independence Mar. 2, 1836. A constitution having been adopted, David G. Burnet, Mar. 16, 1836, was chosen temporary president. Independence was won at the battle of San Jacinto, April 21, 1836. An election for president was called in the following September. Sam Houston was chosen and inaugurated thereafter. He was reelected, and inaugurated Dec. 1841. In 1844, a few months before Texas was admitted to the United States, Anson Jones was elected president serving till Texas became a state...
...which interests him - or her, for Michigan is coeducational. If the choice be literature, Michigan professors will suggest reading, supervise courses. If architecture, they will bul- letin the latest advances in structure and design. If science, they will describe discoveries on demand. Alumni will be free to visit their chosen departments, quiz professors, write letters of inquiry, use the library or the laboratories. They will be perpetual students. No one will ever be graduated. Tuition fees will be voluntary, according to the wealth or generosity of the individual...
Died. Talcott Williams, 78, famed newspaperman, chosen by Joseph Pulitzer to be the first head (1912-1919) of the Columbia School of Journalism; in Manhattan...
Frank Ernest Gannett at 52 took into his family am year old child last week. The child had been looking for a father for six years. The question was considered eugenically and Mr. Gannett was chosen on his record as an honest publisher. The child is the Hartford Times and its addition brings Mr. Gannett's newspaper family to ten. Over $5,000,000, noted as the largest cash consideration ever involved in New England newspaper deals, was Mr. Gannett's price of fatherhood...
...only do these examinations set strict limits on the relationship between tutor and student. I believe that they are capable of exercising a very unwhole-some influence in respect to the kind of person chosen to fill the position, thus further impairing the contact I feel to be so important. Most young men who are enthusiastically concerned to become successful teachers, and who may by good fortune possess creative imaginations of their own, will not be content to labor long under the shackles of the traditional conception of literature and of these new examinations which extend its power...