Word: met
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boylston medical society met yesterday afternoon. E. H. Nichols, M. D., read an essay on the "Diagnosis of Blood Stains in Criminal Cases...
...trustees of Wesleyan met at Middletown, Monday, and elected as president of the college, Rev. Dr. B. P. Raymond, who has been president of the Lawrence University, of Appleton Wis., for about six years...
...trenched itself behind the constitution of the Foot-Ball Association, and how little Harvard has to base its claims upon except the honor of the Yale management of this and last year-which, from the present aspect of things, appears to be a very frail basis. When the convention met this fall to arrange the schedule of games, nothing was said before it of the probability that the Harvard faculty would forbid the New York game. But the Harvard manager spoke to the captain of the Yale eleven on the subject and was plainly given to understand that such mention...
...last Imam, however, was born and died but things went on as before. His adherents then said that he was not really dead, but would return again and complete his work as El Mahdi, "he who is guided by God." Many have taken this title, but all have eventually met with defeat and death. The present Mahdi owes his success to a series of fortunate accidents, and to the fanaticism of the country where he has appeared. The intelligent Moslems, however, believe that he is only a clever adventurer, who would speedily be crushed by a disciplined army...
...when Harvard used to win some victories with the oar, a Harvard graduate was the only coach for the crew, but because he received compensation for his services, the faculty judged him to be a proof seasonal, and forced upon the boat club his dismissal. This short-sighted policy met with the fate it merited. A regular professional coach was secretly tried, and the result which the faculty most desired to bring about was com palely frustrated...