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Word: chosen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the Committee who are running the show, headed by Benedict Einarson, instructor of Classics, and President of the Club, explained yesterday why "The Birds" had been chosen. In the first place a Greek play is alternated with a Latin one, and this production has a minimum of long and difficult parts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Classical Club to Present "Birds" of Aristophanes in the Original Greek | 10/27/1938 | See Source »

Very soon upon his arrival he was chosen pastor of the church in Cambridge constituted after Thomas Hooker had moved to Connecticut. In 1636 a plan for an institution of learning was brought before the General Court, and there was some question as to its location...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memorial is Erected for Pastor Who Was Influential in Founding Harvard | 10/27/1938 | See Source »

...meantime Shepard had established his ministry so firmly that Edward Johnson in his "Wonder-Working Providence" speaks of it as "soul flourishing," and for this reason, as well as the fact that Shepard's congregation had been "preserved from the contagion of Antinomianism," Cambridge was chosen as the site...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memorial is Erected for Pastor Who Was Influential in Founding Harvard | 10/27/1938 | See Source »

Newman who lives in Mathews Hall comes from Hollywood. He was chosen by Keith after the latter interviewed a list of Yardling aspirants. Newman's first task will be conducting business board competitions in order to secure advertising and subscriptions for the Red Book Directory which is scheduled to appear during the third week of November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWMAN SELECTED RED BOOK'S BUSINESS HEAD | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

Last year St. John's redhaired, natty President Stringfellow Barr, ex-Rhodes Scholar and onetime Chicago professor, picked out the 100 greatest classics, let freshmen choose whether they would begin under the new curriculum or the old elective system. Chosen authors, some of whom are represented by more than one book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Imperishable Thoughts | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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