Word: selective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...perhaps, above all others especially fitted to his requirements and future aim in life, but which has gained the rather opprobrious epithet of a "stiff course." It therefore behooves the members of '87 to consider and arrange with no ordinary care and forethought the various electives, which they may select. No college in the country offers such inducements or imposes such responsibilities upon its students as Harvard. Many students while arranging their electives, rely too much upon their own judgment, and fail to consult as freely as they should proper and competent advisers. The result is frequently shown...
According to the new constitution of the base-ball association at Princeton, the nine shall be chosen by a committee of three, consisting of the captain and two men whom he shall select as sure of positions on the nine...
...fact that the total number of votes cast both by Harvard students and by the reading public reached by a New York literary weekly, was so small makes any choice of names liable to the suspicion of local preferences. If is but natural that men who are about to select a list of names which whey consider of most worth, should be more or less influenced by personal preferences. The only offset to this tendency is, that as the prejudices of the reading public of New York are apt to differ from those of the reading public of Boston...
...allowing the question of the advisability of the institution to rest, we merely ask our readers to select lists which should embody their choice of the most prominent men-of-letters in the country. The number must be limited in some way, and the basis of the French Academy is as good as any. As the popular sentiment has recently been taken in England on the subject of English men of letters, the plan is not a new one. Probably more as a matter of curiosity than anything else the Critic has proposed that such a vote be made...
...large number of men, but under the present arrangement the chances are that it will be taken out and kept out by some lucky man to the misfortune of the rest until the time of its usefulness has passed. Besides this advantage, the instructor is usually able to select the books which treat the subject in the most satisfactory manner, thus saving the students the trouble and time which would be expended in reading through works which do not grasp the matter in hand...