Word: selective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Pennsylvania writes: "Have a race on the Schuylkill, pay our expenses, guarantee us a prize, let us select our own judges, and we will consider your proposition...
...examination in Philosophy 1, omitted on account of the sudden absence of the instructor from Cambridge, will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 7 and 8, at 10 A. M., in U. E. R. Each student may select whichever day suits his convenience...
...basement of the gymnasium is a repository for all small articles which have been found from time to time. There has already accumulated a curious collection of gymnastic impedimenta, from which one could easily select a complete gymnastic outfit...
...into the freshman class, the candidate must be thoroughly acquainted with the grammar of the Latin and Greek languages, including prosody; be able, properly, to construe and parse any portion of the following books, namely : Jacobs' Greek Reader, the Gospels in the Greek Testament, Virgil, Sallust and Cicero's Select Orations, and to translate English into Latin correctly. He must be versed in ancient and modern geography; the fundamental rules of arithmetick; vulgar and decimal fractions; proportion, simple and compound; single and double fellowships; alligation, medical and alternate; and algebra to the end of simple equations; comprehend, also, the doctrine...
...MESSENGER, of the firm of Messenger Bros. & Jones, Tailors, of Boston, sails for Europe to select their confined styles for the Spring season on January 4, in the Gallia...