Word: select
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...expiration of a stated time, six young gentlemen should be selected from each division. Tables should be provided for them on the platform at the end of the hall, and at stated intervals they should compete for prizes, - such as a napkin-ring, a stop watch, and a handsome case-knife, - to be provided by general subscription. The committee should select judges and a referee...
Though it is true that the works of Shakespeare, Byron, Hawthorne, and other standard writers may be bought at any time and without particular thought, yet there remain many books which every educated man wishes to select for himself at his leisure, - books which he does not care to purchase until he has at least looked through them, - books interesting to him because connected with some subject which he has studied, though not to the majority of even intelligent readers...
Some may say that it is not well for a student in college to attempt to gather a library, because, aside from the time it takes, he has not sufficiently mature judgment to select the books which he will want in after life. Although in some cases he may buy those which he will not afterwards wish to keep, yet by exercising his judgment he strengthens it, and forms the habit of noticing books, - a habit which will induce him to pay more attention to his library and to literature generally than among the cares of after life he otherwise...
...University would not have been reached when he had succeeded in getting on his class crew; while a lasting advantage would be gained if it increased the number of rowing men, - as it would seem natural that it should, - and provided more and better material from which to select the crews...
...Conkling, President of the Saratoga Rowing Association, was at Springfield, and, at his invitation, the delegates from Harvard, Yale, Wesleyan, and Trinity went to Saratoga, both to see the course and its surroundings and to select quarters for the crews...