Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first prizes were awarded to W. D. Carleton '02 and P. W. Thomson '02; second prizes to J. H. Holmes '02, I. Grossman '02 and A. E. Minard '01. The speaking, as a whole, was effective, clear and enthusiastic; sufficiently varied between the "situation" and the straightforward "address." Carleton chose well in taking a strong, open speech: "The Use and Abuse of Property" by Roosevelt. In his selection from Coppee, "The Benediction," Thomson attempted an entirely different type of piece--with success. Of those to win second prizes, Holmes gave "The Death of Lincoln" by Phillips Brooks; Grossman, part...
...question for discussion is. "Resolved, That Congress was justified in imposing the terms embodied in the Platt amendment to the army appropriation bill, as conditions precedent to leaving the government and control of Cuba to its people, the condition with regard to the Isle of Pines being excepted." Princeton chose the question and Harvard decided to support the negative. The Harvard team, composed of J. D. Fackler 1L., J. W. Scott '04 and H. P. Chandler '01 will give their opening speeches in the order named, and in rebuttal the order will be the same. C. P. McCarthy...
With this tendency toward romanticism, Stevenson naturally chose story writing as the first sphere of his literary activity. In his succeeding books Stevenson sounded a more serious note. "It begins to seem to me to be a man's business to leave off his damnable faces and to say his say," he quoted, in one of his letters. He began to turn from romance to reality...
Thackeray was brought to England from India in 1816, and at the age of eleven he entered the Charterhouse School. There his life, though passed in the partial seclusion from his fellows which his gentle, timid nature chose, was not distinctive or unusual Later he entered Cambridge, then studied law for a time, studied drawing in Paris, and at length returned to London and began writing for papers and magazines...
...Federation chose the following officers for the year...