Word: selectivity
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...with what few introductory and explicative remarks may be necessary for a full understanding of the subject, and offer one the best possible opportunity to renew his acquaintance with some authors, perhaps neglected of late, or to make fresh acquaintances in new fields. It would probably be difficult to select men better qualified to explain their separate subjects than those mentioned above, and one has only to go once and he will continue to go, if he has any real love for literature. If not, perhaps it were better he were not here. It is a common plea that...
...improve this opportunity to pull in races which, although the stakes are small, and little honor is won or lost, nevertheless afford the captain of the University Crew and the captains of the club crews one of the best opportunities of the year to judge of and to select the material from which to form their crews. The captain of the University particularly is obliged to look to these races in picking out what new men he needs. His men must be selected at once, and to Freshmen, since he is yet unacquainted with them, his sharpest scrutiny will naturally...
...find the ball-field as best they might. The game itself was one of the poorest which our team has yet played, a fact in a great measure due, as we may safely say, to an ill-judged and improper favoritism on the part of the Captain in selecting the team. When the honor of the University is interested in a game, as it was in that of last Saturday, it is the duty of the Captain to select the players for their superior skill, and for that reason alone. We refer our readers to another column for a full...
...Glee Club concert at Poughkeepsie was attended by an audience "not as large as in previous years, but fully as appreciative and select...
...atmosphere and aid the class in establishing suitable habits of analysis. A special lecture-room edition of the work to be expounded should be prepared by interleaving the great ethnic novel romance with pages from Herbert Spencer and Gall and Spurzheim, and from other works, as the professor might select. I believe that if the thing is to be done at all, it ought to be done thoroughly. Moreover, the chair should be a movable one, like those connected with Cornell, which are frequently found situated in parlor cars en route from New York and Boston to Ithaca. - The Contributor...