Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confession of the Council's inability successfully to run its own affairs." I cannot perceive the logic in such a conclusion. Does the presence of a similar graduate committee on the Lampoon and the Advocate and the Dramatic Club and the CRIMSON carry a like significance? The Debating Council chose to elect a graduate committee because such a committee is found affiliated with every stable and lasting undergraduate organization in Cambridge, and also because it will be of immeasurable aid in carrying out the project of an alumni endowment fund which was voted upon at the last meeting...
...machinated secretly against Plutarco Elias Calles when he was President and later against his staunch friend President Emilio Portes Gil. So highly placed were the insurrectos that until they actually broke out their banners of revolt, nothing could be done to check their plotting. Once they chose to take the field, and lost, their power within the Army and State was broken...
...grown upon us that such a drastic change seemed like the breaking of a cherished tradition. So we went to the dress rehearsal last night with a delicately balanced chip on our shoulder. But we came away smiling, eager to record that once when the Dramatic Club chose to be undramatic the result was a gay and tuneful frolic obviously hugely enjoyable to its participants and contagious in its entertainment value...
...Jubilee. We are well aware and extremely sorry that there are some who will find this date inconvenient on account of Freshman athletic contests, but such will be the case on every Saturday of the Spring term. The Class Officers, in selecting this date, chose it as the most favorable in regard to these contests. As the Dean's Office does not allow the dance to be held during the middle of the week, Friday is the only permissible day on which it may take place. Also the Dean's Office does not permit it to occur after the close...
Finally, those who chose well their courses will soon reap the profits of their foresight, for after another seven days comes the last appearance this year of that popular favorite Reading Period. Whatever that may mean to the individual, the Vagabond hopes it concords with his own pious wish that even if there are thirty-one days in May, it can't produce as much rain as April did with only thirty...