Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least half a millennium no one has thought of Chinamen or Chinawomen as pioneers. They have chosen not the virile and womanly covered wagon, but the sendentary and exquisite silken robe. Today China has only one Daniel Boone -the great Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang. Last week he lectured Chinafolk severely for their timid sit-by-the-hearthishness and failure to pioneer. "Is it any wonder," he roared, "that we are laughed at by imperialist countries, who treat us contemptuously, as though we were their little grandsons? They do not even esteem us as much as their cats and dogs...
...gloriously won, in spite of tactical errors at Shiloh, brutal human waste at Cold Harbor, Grant was unfortunately awarded the presidency. He knew nothing about politics or human character, neither of these imponderables being tangible matter of action. His chosen advisers were crooked or incompetent (the minister to England, a poker expert, taught the game to British peers, started a fad), his policies pathetic; but grimly he stuck to both. Scandals rivaling Teapot Dome culminated in the gold corner by Gould and Fisk, shrewd rascals who dazzled Grant with their powerful wealth, involved the honest dupe in fiasco...
James Elmer Barrett '30, of Leominster who starred in Harvard line play this season was chosen to lead the University eleven in 1929 at a meeting of football lettermen at the Varsity Club yesterday afternoon...
...Second team will be formed. Since the days for practice are so limited, Coach Stubbs has arranged for two extra sessions to be held on the next two Saturday afternoons. These periods will be of only about an hour's duration, so the groups must necessarily be small. Those chosen for these days, however, will be in no way indicative of the makeup of the team...
Almost the entire Harvard eleven was honored by the Associated Press in its annual selection of mythical all star teams of the Eastern universities. Nine of the eleven regulars were listed in the "Honorable Mention" category of this selection, although none was included on either of the two teams chosen...