Word: selective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...simply to show by taking representatives from Harvard alone, how many of the foremost men in America for the last two hundred and fifty years have received a college training, -men who owe to this fact much of their greatness. The record speaks for itself. Although I intend to select only graduates of Harvard, yet I cannot pass by without noticing the founder of our university, John Harvard, of whom Edward Everett, in an oration delivered in 1826 upon the erection of a monument in his honor, spoke as follows...
...suggest, with the approval of Mr. LeMoyne, that not the captain alone, but the executive committee, who would undoubtedly be largely influenced by the captain, select the Harvard nines for the future. This will relieve the captain of a little responsibility, and will give the college at large more voice in base-ball matters, while it will prevent any persons from complaining that the nine is run in favor of any class or clique. The captain should of course have full power when the executive committee cannot meet...
...lawn tennis tournament is in progress at Amherst to select representatives for the intercollegiate tournament at Hartford...
...arranged that the public can fairly estimate the advantages of our present distribution of limited exhibitions in comparatively small rooms devoted to special objects, as compared with the usual museum arrangements, by which all the collections of an establishment are thrown open to visitors, without any attempt to select the more important or interesting objects, or to arrange them in an instructive manner. As soon as the new geological and biological laboratories of the corner-piece are occupied, probably at the commencement of the next academic year, the same arrangement will be extended to the geological and palaeoutological collections...
...imbecile, whose subsequent fate does not matter much. But even if we allow some weight to this argument it tells still more strongly against the required system. For if a man of 20 or over, with the united wisdom of friends, parents, and instructors to back him, cannot select a suitable course of study for himself how is it to be expected that the half-dozen men who drew up the scheme of required studies, and who have never seen or thought or this individual, should be able...