Word: selection
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plays for the spring production of the Dramatic Club must be in the hands of H. Scholle '18, Dunster 26, by 6 o'clock tomorrow evening. The plays will then be placed in the hands of impartial judges who will select the best three or four, depending on the length of the plays...
Many Seniors have delayed in returning proofs and in notifying the Notman Company of the one selected for the Album. Since this entirely counteracts the advantage of having pictures taken early the Photograph Committee has decided that if a man does not return his choice within three days from the time he was photographed the committee will then select one for the Album. This action is necessary because the engraving company must have 200 photographs to commence work on immediately. H. B. COURTEEN. G. B. BLAINE. R. N. CRAM...
...snow filtered through the roof of Massachusetts Hall, ice was cracked for matutinal ablutions and beer and soggy biscuits were the breakfast food. The declining use of purchased literature perhaps means increasing dependence on the wonderful collection of books the University has made, and a general inclination to select the courses that are of a manual as well as mental nature, realizing the ideal of Dr. Eliot, who said that he would not rest content till most of the studies called on the student to use his hands as well as his head. --Philadelphia Public Ledger...
Also it is obviously impossible to select a championship team for any section. The game calls for too much physically from its players to make it possible to stage a sufficient number of games to decide a football championship. Players who have put forth all that they could muster against a traditional rival might show up stale against an inferior football team a week later. Certain games call for the supreme effort; others are merely football games to fill in a schedule. --The Outlook...
Among the pieces of advice gratuitously showered on the undergraduate none is more often repeated than that which urges him to select certain courses, regardless of their intrinsic value in his scheme of education, for the sake of listening to some particularly famous member of the Harvard Faculty. If he does so, and does not take the trouble to gain a personal acquaintance with his professor he is failing in half his avowed purpose. Relations of this sort often prove of more value than the actual work of the courses, and by being continued in after life may become...