Word: selection
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...committee to select the Rhodes scholar at Oxford from Massachusetts yesterday elected Roger Sherman Loomis 1G., Williams '09, of Yokohama, Japan. Loomis specialized in English while at Williams '09, of Yokohama, Japan. Loomis specialized in English while at Williams, and he will continue this study at Oxford. The scholarship to which he has been appointed carries an annual stipend of $1500 and entitles the holder to study at Oxford for a team of three years, beginning in October...
Many obstacles are to be met before this idea of class unity can be accomplished. First, and most important, is to secure the necessary funds; then, whether to erect new buildings or to utilize old ones; what location to select; how to assign the rooms so that friction will be avoided and natural associations be formed. Time and patience will be required for the working out of these problems; but we believe that under President Lowell's direction their solution will be reached, and that the present College generation will see the working out of his theories...
...second anniversary of the birth of John Harvard, which historians have placed on November 29, 1607, although the date is not certain, the preacher at the morning prayers in Appleton Chapel on Monday morning, the Rev. Francis J. McConnell, D.D., LL.D., president of De Pauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, will select his subject with special reference to the occasion. Last year this service was omitted, but the three hundredth anniversary in 1907 was made the occasion of a great undergraduate celebration. It is expected that henceforth the birthday will be marked by a brief address similar...
...Union once or twice during the year and, at such times, if they throw masterly bluff and assume an honest countenance, they can easily pass for members." There is certainly no use in trying to hide this fact. The Union is thus grossly misused every year by a select body of men. Some few use it regularly without being members, though every means is taken to prevent it. The rest use it once in a while; and both seem to think it a joke, or think nothing about it. But mere thoughtlessness cannot explain it away...
...University cross-country squad was sent over the Massachusetts Institute of Technology course yesterday afternoon in a time trial to enable the coaches to select a team for the race with Technology on Friday. The finish was in the following order: P. R. Withington '12, E. L. Viets '11, R. H. Rowse '12, P. C. Heald '11, W. H. Fernald '12, G. Boyd '12, G. R. Harding '11, W. P. Rogers '11, H. W. Bradley '12, C. D. Burrage '11, G. E. Graves '11, W. F. Ryan '11. From these, and H. Y. Masten '10, a veteran from last year...