Word: selective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Tennis Association will hold a tournament, beginning Saturday, Oct. 10th, at 10 a. m., to select men to send to New Haven to compete in the Inter-collegiate Tournament in both singles and doubles. As the Inter-collegiate Tournament takes place on the Thursday following, the time for deciding on the men is limited. It is therefore requested that only the best players present themselves. An entrance book has been placed at Bartlett's. Entries close at 8 p. m. today. The drawing will be published in Saturday's CRIMSON...
...away from college last year and has played ball but little in college. He, however, has the making of a good player. The other candidates are known to the college and need no special mention. The base-ball management will have no lack of material from which to select next spring...
...work of the crew and the untiring efforts of its captain which cause us to put so much trust in the result of the race. Too much praise cannot be given Captain Storrow, who, without the valuable services of a coach and with the rawest material from which to select, has succeeded in getting together a crew of which Harvard need feel no shame, whatever may be its success at New London. Let the crew remember that it is on the water that Harvard has ever looked for success with the greatest confidence, and that defeat there is felt most...
...high literary ability. This evil does not exist to as great a degree in our larger colleges that have reputations, and are careful of them, as it does in the smaller institutions of learning, that are eager to claim some great man as an adopted son, and therefore select several promising public men, in the expectation that perchance one of them may hereafter become famous, and aid with his influence and money that college that first recognized and endorsed...
...prescribed a cast-iron curriculum for the entire college course, to which all alike must conform without any latitude of choice. Neither does he believe that the average boy of 18 years is mature and discreet enough to be allowed to come and go as he pleases, or to select his own course of subjects at the very beginning of his term out of a great multitude presented to his uninformed judgment from which to choose. Harvard has 200 courses of study, from which the student must choose a limited number in order to obtain a degree, and many...