Word: selectness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Faculty shall select the courses which ought to be excluded as elementary; but none but courses of a decidedly primary character are to be excluded...
...take none before twelve; from ten to eleven the same ignorant creatures who get to the theatre early rush home again. You, of course, will always take a little supper at Ober's, and then one of the late cars; the company is not, generally, quiet or perfectly select, but you will always find a few "swell...
...committee to decide as to the sports and to select all prizes was next appointed. They immediately drew up and submitted the order of events which will be found below. This order was adopted. It was then decided to have an extra special meeting for Freshmen only, on Saturday, October 26. The object of this meeting is to give Freshmen a chance to compete among themselves before entering against some of the more famous athletes of the University. It is thought that by giving them this meeting they still gain confidence in themselves, and come forward in large numbers...
Season-tickets $5.00. The subscription-list is now open at the University Bookstore, Harvard Square. Subscribers may select their seats at the time of subscription. The first concert will take place about the middle of November. Full particulars will soon be announced...
...what is called a boating-man, that is, I saunter down to the club-house every afternoon, select a shell, and try to select an oar - oarful task - from the buttonless, broken-bladed specimens now on exhibition; then I venture out for an hour's pull, returning in time to take a shower-bath, to dress, and to arrive at Memorial Hall about six o'clock. By that time the rare beef has all disappeared, and the waiters are generally hidden behind that mysterious screen where there are so many "evidences of things known, but unseen...