Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...year before being allowed to choose first, and so on; those who had particularly good rooms having usually to content themselves with a loft in Massachusetts. There were certain privileged characters who were given a choice before the rest of their class, such as the President's freshman who chose first, followed by the instructors freshmen in the order of their patron's seniority. It will be seen that by this arrangement, Holworthy was practically given up to the seniors, as they would naturally choose the best rooms, it being their last year; but that for members of the other...
...Harvard student has the opportunity to chose from two and one half the instruction offered by Yale...
...first place gained by putting the election of overseers in the hands of the alumni. Formerly it was necessary that certain clergymen and state officers should be in the governing hands. But this state of affairs began to change in 1810, and in 1865 the graduates chose the whole Board of Overseers. But Yale, although some of her governing officers are now elected by the alumni, still has a large number of ex-officio officers...
...they have at Rochester. Such statements are always very interesting, and often amusing. Rochester proudly says, "We have no tutors; all are professors." The inference is that the Rochester men get better instruction than we do. But they forget that a man is no better simply because you chose to call him "professor." If the Rochester "professors" are not above the ordinary Harvard tutor in education and ability, what is the advantage in having him for a teacher...
...language is simple. The ideas are easy of comprehension. If they could be read and digested by all college men, the next generation will find fewer educated men in want. The number of men to-day, who, with all the training of a university routine, could yet, if they chose, recite a tale of dreary hope against hope, is too large. Mr. Rawle evidently laments this fact, and his address, if appreciated, is certainly calculated to be of material benefit to the college-bred men of the future...