Word: selects
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor W. J. Ashley is editing a series of books under the title "Economic Classics." The volumes now ready are those on Adam Smith (select chapters and passages) and Ricardo (first six chapters). There will appear in a few days a volume on Malthus (parallel chapters from the first and second editions). In addition there will be published later volumes from the works of Mun, Child, Turgot, Quesnai, Roscher, and others...
...Brown Catalogue, recently published, gives the number of students as 740, of which graduates constitute 108, seniors 91, juniors 112, sophomores 144, freshmen 140. select course 45 and Women's College 100. The list of the professors and instructors give 83 members on the faculty...
...Association publishes six numbers each year, monographs on important questions of the day or on disputed questions of economic theory, by those who have made special studies in the field. A committee of five leading economists select the manuscripts to be published so that excellence is guaranteed. The Association thus affords to younger writers who have made special investigations in these lines the opportunity to test the quality of their work, and the best work is assured of a reading by practically all progressive economists of the United States and Europe, and furnishes to students interested in this field...
...which all lovers of true college sport must deeply regret and it would seem to be most ill advised under these circumstances to sanction by acquiesence the making of public charges which directly impeach the good faith of college men, or if the charges are to be preferred, to select the columns of newspapers as the place to exhibit them. It is therefore the hope of the committee that you will take immediate action upon this communication...
Accordingly there will be two competitions, or, rather, one competition in two parts, instead of one trial, as formerly. At the first trial the men will be divided into two sections, each with three judges. The judges will select the five best men in each section and the ten thus chosen will, a few days later, enter the second part of the competition. At this time the three best of the ten men will be selected to represent Harvard. Speakers in the first part will be limited to five minutes, in the second to ten; the judges on the second...