Word: selective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...inauguration of President Kirkland is described on page 239. I select a sentence or two for quotation: "The friends of classical literature were highly gratified that His Excellency the Governour for his inductive address made an election of the Latin language. We cannot forbear thanking him [Dr. Thacher] for his well-timed defence of the character of his college, against the barefaced charges and insinuated imputations, which disappointed rivalry may well account for, but which nothing can palliate, and for which profound penitence only can atone . . A Latin and Greek ode in the Commons-Hall gave a classical...
...feel hopeful; having lost three of last year's crew our chances are pretty poor, Geo. Rogers, Collins and Fuller having graduated. There are, however, besides the five of last year's crew in training a number of good men from whom it will be possible to select eight men who will certainly work hard to bring the "blue" ahead at New London next summer. The crew row regularly on the Sound and have not lost a day for some time. Storrs went out for the first time last Tuesday, and made his presence felt in the boat. He will...
Miss Genevieve Ward, the excellent actress, gives readings to select audiences of Oxford students at the latter's quarters...
Nine per cent. of Yale graduates become clergymen. But to see them in their sophomore year, you'd find it mighty hard to select one that doesn't seem headed straight for running a gambling saloon or a training school for prize fighters. - [Post...
...Tech grieves because donors of gifts to colleges "naturally, perhaps not always wisely, select an old and famous seat of learning as the recipient of their bequest. Nowhere is the dictum, 'Unto him that hath, it shall be given,' more exactly true than in respect to college funds. The few thousands and the library of John Harvard have yielded a return of honor beyond the power of any succeeding legacy...