Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this house favors the enlargement of the Stadium to a seating capacity of 80,000 people" in the debate on Tuesday evening, March 20, under the auspices of the Debating Union, it was announced last night. A. R. Sweezy '29 is the only other speaker who has been definitely chosen, but several other tentative selections have been made. It is expected that many members of the 1927 football team, including Captain-elect A. E. French '29, will be present, and one of them will speak. The Student Council has also been asked to send its representative. No decision...
...Secretary of a State Committee of Selection before October 20. The candidate may apply either in the state in which he resides or in the one in which he has received at least two years of his college education. It is essential that he be one of the men chosen to represent his institution in the competition. Harvard applicants, irrespective of their native states, should apply to President Lowell in writing before October 1 for selection as Harvard candidates...
...said the official program. It was a fine old tradition. The gentility rules the city. Their clubs-Comus (the oldest), Atlanteans, Momus, Proteus, Twelfth Night, Mystics, Druids-gave balls and there was much whispering as to whether little Miss Such-&-Such got any invitations. Then there was the Queen, chosen more for her social graces than for Atlantic City qualifications. This year she was Miss Betty Watson, daughter of Banker Eli T. Watson, last year's Rex. The new Rex was Leon Irwin, insurance man, to whom Mayor Walker drank his only champagne toast of the trip...
Masaryk's Dream. Post-War history has already chosen as its darling "The Lonely Slovak in Prague."* With Wilson dead, Clemenceau withered and Lloyd George second-fiddling, it has become evident how great is Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, first and still the only president of the Czechoslovak Republic...
...Washington, this one not to be a U. S. Westminster Abbey or even a cathedral. Instead, it will be the largest U. S. cruciform church; it will be called the National Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Charles Wood, D.D., president of its incorporators, revealed that a site had already been chosen, that the church would be 290 feet long and 150 feet wide, that its steeple or tower would rise 222 feet above the ground...