Word: chosen
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...silly mistake [on the part of the University] to deprive Peter of his chosen counsel," Nesson added...
Last Friday, Pforzheimer House and the Undergraduate Council showcased Harvard's own in the Springfest Battle of the Bands. The chosen, selected to compete by some mysterious and no doubt complicated process involving a whirl of demos and referrals, were: Putney Swope, usagipop, the Mode Mode and 98%. Despite a few false starts and technical difficulties ranging from a broken guitar string to an impertinent drum machine, the show moved quickly from set to set. Each band played up to a half-hour of selections. With a range that spanned from noise rock to soul classics, it would have been...
Last Thursday in Dudley House, the council awarded nine professors the first ever GSC Excellence in Mentoring Award. First nominated by graduate students, the winners were ultimately chosen by a GSC committee...
...Lawns were not always the chosen landscape of the educational countryside; Oxford and Cambridge adapted and refined their expanses of herbiage to conform to fashion dictates. Oxbridge was the seat of elite male education in Britannia. In her 1994 work, "The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession," Virginia Scott Jenkins relates how the lawn concept emerged in the 18th century, when the gardens at Versailles were designed to include a small lawn, called the "tapis vert" and the popularity of Lancelot Brown's landscape stylings in Britain ("a new, elite style characterized by a mixture of meadows, water...
...that framed admissions letter you keep under your pillow, OurSquare offers access to over 10,000 students and grads of elite institutions for conversation, networking and, of course, love. The site, which also goes by the name "The Square," features two membership options: regular and gold. The gold option, chosen by over 1,000 members so far, offers entry into online discussion groups (including such topics as "Banking," "Consulting" and "The Economist Magazine") and a ticket to romance in the OurSquare personals section--all for only $36 per year...