Word: selection
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...preliminary chess tournament will be held next week to select ten men to compose the University team. Of special importance is the fact that Freshmen and members of the graduate schools, with certain restrictions for the intercollegiate games, are eligible for this team...
Paris is said to have been startled by the audacity; but why, if Parisians have faith in the star of Joffre? This select lot of land, scarred by trenches and craters, but still prolific in the hands of the intensive farmer, is French soil again. The buildings, it is true, have been shot to pieces and the trees, if there be any left, are blasted by shell and gas and may never leaf again, but one may till and sleep there in security unless the Germans "come back...
...appears many times that a man is compelled to select some course about which he knows nothing in order to round out either his field of concentration or distribution. After the first meeting a certain course may prove to be entirely unsuited to his tastes. Usually the man remains in the course, resigns himself to the fact that he will be bored, and determines to do as little work as possible. With slight effort this misfortune can be averted. Provided a student has a reason worthy of consideration he is allowed to drop a course any time before Saturday, October...
With one 4 to 0 victory over the Red and Blue nine safely stored away, the University baseball team will face Pennsylvania in the final contest of a two-game series on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Coach Mitchell will probably select Mahan to do the slab work for the home team, as the latter was exceedingly effective against the Quakers in the first game, allowing only four scattered hits and whiffing eleven batsmen. Spielman, the opposing team's premier twirler, will doubtless go in the box for the visitors. The latter has shouldered the major portion...
Equipment of all kinds necessary for the training of officers of the several arms of the service--Infantry, Cavalry, Field Artillery, Engineers, Coast Artillery Corps and Signal Corps--will be furnished, and every opportunity will be given men to select the arm of the service in which they believe themselves best fitted to serve...