Word: selective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...enter a university where the choice of studies is free. He holds that a boy has then passed the age when compulsory discipline is valuable, and he can no longer be driven to any useful exercise of his mind, and that he can select for himself a better course of study than any college faculty can possibly select...
...representation of "Julius Caesar" by the Shakespeare Club last evening in Sanders Theatre was given before a select and highly appreciative audience. The great proportion of ladies present revived the interest which is manifested in the Shakespeare Club in Cambridge...
...open to the avoidance of conflicts in his weekly schedule, take French, Music, and Botany, and in place of the Hebrew, a course in elementary Fine Art where "practice in Drawing, including the use of water-colors, forms a considerable part of the work." That many men select such courses is not hard for anyone to believe who has seen the great skill often exhibited in the choice of easy subjects in other colleges. That it is practised in notorious...
...expenditures of monies for the grand stand. The committee which had charge of the matter in 1883 procured plans for a stand the estimated expense of which is $14,949.00. It is planned to seat 1300 people. The business of the committee of three, which it is proposed to select this evening, will be to look over this plan thoroughly and to see if any alterations are advisable. It is then proposed that they publish a circular containing a full description and estimates of the plans which they may approve, with also, possibly, a heliotype, showing the present accommodations...
...Grant, an alumnus of the school, read a poem which, while it abounded in witty allusions to the past history of the school and its masters, had a serious purpose, and embodied the idea of the writer in a most striking manner. The music, which was furnished by a select chorus, under the direction of Mr. Geo. L. Osgood, was of the highest order. A solo sung by Mr. Osgood, was rendered in a most artistic manner, and was one of the most pleasant features of the evening. The Carmen Seculare was in imitation of Horace, and as a Latin...