Word: selective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...movements increases. It is hoped that in less than a month the weather will permit the use of a barge on the river, but at present the harbor is covered with ice. The number of candidates has been reduced to fourteen, but out of this number Yale expects to select a crew that will defeat Harvard in June. Of the men now in training, Stevenson, Wilcox, Carter and Woodruff rowed last season; Cross and Hurd were substitutes. The remaining candidates-Wells, Corbin, James, G. Burroughs, H. Burroughs, Hartwell, Newell and Brewster-have rowed in their class boats and have...
...know something of the great literature in which our own American life and thought are reflected? The young men who look to you for guidance are Americans; could you not manage to include at least one American author in the list of those from whose works you select the subjects for your entrance examinations in English literature. Is there none in all the list who is worthy of such recognition by a leading American college, or is it the deliberate judgment of Harvard College that acquaintance with American literature is wholly unnecessary and valueless as a part of the education...
...number of engagements which this young but exceedingly prosperous organizations has before it, proves that among select circles the guitar and mandolin are rapidly superseding the banjo. Next Friday evening the club is to play in Longwood at a concert given by the Longwood Glee Club, in which Dr. Langmaid and other wellknown singers are to take part, and on the succeeding Friday the club appear between the acts of some theatricals given in the Town Hall, Milton. Engagements are also made to appear in West Roxbury, Worcester, Belmont, and elsewhere. Immediately after the mid-years, a trial...
...voted that the subject of athletic exercises and alleged abuses, excesses and accidents incident to the same, be referred to a select committee of five, to report at such time as may suit their convenience during the present academic year. The committee consists of Messrs. Storey, Walcott, Putnam, Coolidge and Lovell.- Boston Advertiser...
Mayor Russell, of Cambridge, has received a letter from Mr. Frederick H. Rindge, who has offered to build a new city hall providing the city will select and buy its own lot, in which he expresses his preference for the site proposed for the new building opposite the present city hall, and bounded by Main, Inman, Austin and Temple streets. This site also appears to be a favorite with the public at large, and will undoubtedly be the one selected...