Word: selections
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There will be a set of handicap games at Princeton this afternoon to select men for the Mott Haven team...
When the leader of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was asked to select a program which would be appropriate to a concert in memory of James Russell Lowell, he chose three works which were, as far as possible, the expression of all that is noble in man. By grouping together, representations of three types of character, all different, yet all pointing to one ideal conception of manhood, he showed what power the language of music has to express the different phases and emotions of the human character. From the romantic reveries of the imaginative, poetic Manfred overture, through the life portrayed...
...course leading to the A. B. degree the absolute requirement of German or French is dropped, but students are advised to offer themselves for examination upon one or both and receive credit for advanced work. The required work in Latin, Greek and Mathematics is decreased, but the student must select either French or German. During the second and third terms of the freshman year an elementary course is required in rhetoric and English composition. The electives for sophomore, junior and senior years are increased in number and the course in rhetoric, English literature, oratory and public speaking is made continuous...
...draws forth the affection and loyalty of all who are in a measure like-minded; and over the thoughtless or perverse multitude it exercises a sovereign, compulsory sway, bidding them fear and keep silence, on the ground of its own right Divine to rule them. And for that select number who feel themselves, as it were, individually addressed by the invitation of his example: 'By degrees they would discern more and more the traces of unearthly majesty about him; they would witness from time to time his trial under the various events of life and would still find, whether they...
This arrangement we declined to accept for the reason that we were unwilling to select the home-ground of one of the contesting teams as a suitable place for playing the possible tie game of the series...