Word: selection
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...trial held by the Sophomore Debating Club in Sever 35 last night to select a team to speak against Exeter, ten men spoke, and the following were chosen. P. Fitzpatrick, J. M. Gates, W. H. Lough, Jr., and P. E. Letchworth, alternate. A. Friedman and J. H. Holmes will compose a second team to practice with the first for the debate. The judges were E. Mayer, W. M. Chadbourne and S. H. E. Freund...
...arbitration. Before the Hague treaty was signed there was no real code of International law; so that this treaty has been aptly called the "Magna Charta of International Law." By it, arbitration is not compulsory, but every nation is urged to resort to it. Four judges are to be selected from each nation, from whom each of the contending parties will select two and these judges will select a fifth. The nations must agree to abide by the decision of the board of arbitration...
...nations also agreed, that in case they could not arbitrate, they would each select two seconds to act for thirty days, and would do all in their power to make peace. In the meantime the powers were to continue arming. In case war resulted the seconds would still act, and if one side were much weaker than the other, would put a stop to the fight...
...months at the close of the civil war, when he served as a volunteer aide on the staff of his classmate, General Wilde, and the winters of the past ten years spent in Boston. In 1859 he was a member of the House of Representatives and of the select special committee on the revision of the statutes. Since November, 1865, excepting the years 1875-78, he served in various official capacities, including that of auditor in the Boston Custom House...
...customs, as well as some of the most interesting episodes of colonial history. The extracts are rewritten in modern form, so as to offer no puzzles of grammar or spelling, but preserves the racy and often humorous flavor of the old writers. Special pains has been taken to select extracts which will set forth the amusements, pursuits and interests of children, both white and Indian. The publishers are Macmillan...