Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brain team competition and is prepared to receive challenges from any college, according to information received here today. At the last meeting of their student council, a decision was reached to promote a brain team which should be composed of the most brilliant students in the college, to be chosen by the process of elimination...
...that in the case of men whose abilities are so little specialized it would make but little difference in the long run into what field of business they entered. The history of many of the greatest figures in modern American industry shows that the field of their successes was chosen almost entirely by chance. Granted a modicum of brains and energy to start with, the indecision displayed by college students as to their intentions may be due to the simple fact that there is no one field in which alone they could look for success...
...Hutchins has packed much successful living. On the Italian front he won a Croce di Guerra for U. S. ambulance driving. A Yale graduate of 1921, he captained the debating team, was class orator, achieved prominence without athletics. Two years later while a Yale Law School student he was chosen secretary of the University. His LL.B. came magna cum laude in 1925. In 1927 he was made Dean of the Yale Law School...
...predecessor, Mr. Shattuck has no "who" in Who's Who. But not for some time has he needed such identification in Massachusetts. Since 1923 he has been Chairman of the Ways & Means Committee in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He could have become Speaker this year had he chosen, and Governor Fuller once asked him to run for Attorney-General. He did not choose. Detached of mien, not outwardly the politician, he appeared to feel that his post was at the purse-strings of his commonwealth and there he stayed, vigorously, vigilantly economical. That was why Harvard...
...committee chosen is as follows: Production Manager, E. T. Batchelder '30; Stage Manager, G. C. Alexander '30; Technician, R. H. Thompson '30; Property Manager, J. S. Williams '32; Chief Electrician, H. T. King '30; Painting Director, L. F. Robinson '30; Publicity Manager, J. S. Jennison '30; Costumes, G. W. Harrington '30; Music, B. D. Hanighen '30; H. G. Meyer '30 was chosen to fill the vacant secretaryship...