Word: met
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Holden Chapel was crowded to its utmost capacity yesterday afternoon at half past one o'clock when the students met to take some action on the death of Adelbert Shaw. The meeting was called to order by A. J. Cumnock '91, who called upon P. D. Trafford, L. S., to read a letter which the committee which called the meeting had prepared to send to Shaw's family. The letter was as follows...
...only elevated spot in all Cambridge, Castle Hill. From here could be seen Christ College, where Milton obtained his degree, and Emanuel. This latter college is rendered peculiarly interesting to Harvard students, for here John Harvard was famous. Here the self-appointed committee of the colony of Massachusetts met and indirectly laid the foundation of Harvard College...
...inexpedient: [a] Refund of tax aids in producing deficit which must be met by increased taxation or a loan: Nation, March 12, 1891; [b] Return of tax lawfully collected tends to discredit the government: Veto message, p. 505; [c] Leads necessarily to return of other war taxes, e. g. income tax: Veto message, p. 505; Q. J. E., III, 452, 456; [d] States will be demoralized by sudden filling of their treasuries, cf. results of "deposit of 1836" : Bourne, "History of the Surplus Revenue...
...Rudolph C. Lehmann. Nor is this the first time there has been such a display of good feeling between the two universities. As far back as 1852 T. S. Egan, a Cambridge coxswain, coached Oxford. In 1869 and 1870 George Morrison of Oxford coached Cambridge after Cambridge had met several successive defeats. Again in 1883, W. B. Woodgate, an Oxford oarsman and editor of Oars and Sculls, coached Cambridge...
...such as a popular demand for such a change, the supposed analogies of foreign educational systems, the relations of our colleges to our professional schools, the failure of the attendance at colleges to keep pace with the growth of population, the increasing efficiency of our secondary schools, etc.,- are met and answered. Professor Macvane's arguments are logically arranged and the whole article is an earnest plea for the existing order of things and against college iconoclasm...