Word: elected
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fair hands. The young ladies of this high seat of learning are, no doubt, partisans of Mr. Hendricks' who seems to be a favorite with the gentler sex, and they would like to see that staunch Democrat in the Presidential chair. It was a guileless, girlish plot. The President-elect, being too busy to eat that cake will live...
...Thos. A. Hendricks of Indiana, Vice-President elect, has consented to deliver the annual address before the Yale alumni and graduating classes at commencement, June...
Princeton has held a meeting, and voted herself the foot ball championship. While she's voting, she should secure the last base ball championship, and then, greatest feat of all, elect herself "a leading university."-[Yale Record...
...amendment committee they will consent to stand as candidates and not jump up with that surprising alacrity which characterizes some men when their names are mentioned for office, to beg leave to decline the nomination. If all men who are nominated stand, there will be an opportunity to elect the best men. Let there be a full meeting, let all possible candidates be nominated, and not simply enough to make up the committee, and then we may rest assessed that a desirable committee will be chosen to deal with this most important question...
...knowledge he posessed into to a lever lift, exercise and strengthen the growing minds committed to his care." Few realize the importance and truth that is contained in these simple words and we believe that many of the students do not even give a thought about the instructors they elect courses under. Naturally a man reasons that in the choice of an elective he should only pick out those subjects, which will do him the most good, and care little as to what instructors he will come under; and while there is a great gain when a man conscientiously chooses...