Word: selective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...affirmative. A government is like a great farm. The owner chooses the head farmers to carry out his ideas of the best interests of the estate. If a new owner comes in who does not believe in the methods of the former landlord, it is proper for him to select new servants to carry out his ideas. These men must know their business, and, besides, must be interested in the success of the owner. Under these, however, are the laborers who perform routine work. Is it wise to turn these men out even if they do not belong...
...Romances. In later times the number of names really great is considerable. One might give Chaucer, the freshest and most springlike of all poets; Spenser (though with a certain hesitation). and Milton,- a little, for his real greatness was style rather than matter. Among the moderns, man a should select to begin with who ever most appeals to him, provided he choose a great author and not a coarse one. It is bad to get into literature by the back door,- as witness the obscenity of the minor Elizabethan drama...
...bond sufficient to cover all damages could be left with the Bursar. It is a pity that such commendable energy in rowing matters should be nipped in the bud, and at a time, too, when the college needs plenty of good material from which to select the regular 'Varsity crew...
DEAR SIR:- It was voted to accept your challenge to a road-race and a committee of three, consisting of president Charles Hayden, vice-president, A. L. Williston and captain E. S. Hutchins have been appointed to make the necessary arrangements, and if you will kindly select a time and place of meeting and notify me of it, they will be present...
...tank similar to that of Yale's. In it the men learn more quickly how to handle their oars and are more easily "coached." Then, also, a series of races in the fall of the year between two picked crews would be beneficial, the eight to be select from all the rowing men in college. These trial heats have been tried at Oxford and Cambridge with favorable results...