Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went to art school in Toronto, but, in contrast to those writers who in moments of inertia decorate their manuscripts with little pictures, Author de la Roche scrawled small stories on her sketch papers. Even now she prefers to write with a drawing board on her knees. Jalna, chosen as the best of 1,100 novels, is by no means her first published work,* though it is the first to bring her wide recognition. Now, in her native city, tea, dinner, luncheon tables buzz with compliments from dullards, staggered at a miracle which they had mistaken for mediocrity...
Candidates may prepare five minutes speeches for tonight on either the affirmative or the negative side of the question. Following the speeches tonight Professor F. C. Packard '20 and E. M. Rowe '27, the coaches will make the first cut. Three speakers and one or more alternatives will be chosen for the encounter with the English team...
...newly chosen committees will cooperate with the authorities in planning dormitory meetings and smokers, arranging inter-dormitory sports, and purchasing magazines for the Common Rooms...
...question to be debated on October 28 by Harvard and a team compos of representatives of three English universities is: "Resolved, That the fetish of efficiency is a deplorable feature of modern life." The question of which Harvard is to support the affirmative, was chosen last night at an open meeting of the Debating Council in Harvard 6 from a list of six subjects suggested by the English team...
...organization was founded by Professor Emeritus Eugene Wambaugh '76, and the members are chosen purely for their scholastic ability. They have been recognized by the courts and may plead their cases as if they were already admitted...