Word: chosenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harmon is the second sophomore to be chosen captain of a Harvard team for next year. During the winter, the swimmers elected Mike Cahalan, a freestyle sprinter, to lead them in he next season...
Mike Ananis was selected as the winner of the Class of 1959 Award, and Bruce Regan was chosen as next year's captain at the season-ending meeting of the lacrosse team in Dillon Field House yesterday afternoon...
...premiere, Station Manager Doug Finley found Rookie Reddin "so good" that he cried ("Well, maybe not cried, but I certainly lumped up"). Reddin was more straight-shooting. Before the show he had quipped: "I believe each man should start at the top of his chosen profession." Afterwards he said, "You know, it's not as easy as it looks." Despite two weeks of video-taped dry runs, he did not transmit the Cronkite-like "casualness" that he had promised. His normally easy Irish smile switched on when it should have been turned off, and during his patriotic peroration...
These Institute Scholars, known officially as Associate Scholars, are awarded fellowships of up to $3000 per year to work on independent projects on a part-time basis. Chosen from more than 200 applicants, 18 to 25 women, about half of whom have doctorate degrees, become Institute Scholars each year. The Institute can accommodate only 40 Scholars at any given time, so a Scholar can stay at the Institute two years at the most...
...women need extra boosts, when they want to try careers, because they lack self-confidence. One of the directors at the Institute remarked that the Scholars seemed to need encouragement more than anything else. Certainly they get his at the Institute. When I asked her how the Scholars were chosen, she said that the women who needed the Institute most, including some who would benefit greatly from a boost in confidence, were usually the ones picked...