Word: met
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...YORK, June 11. - The executive committee of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association met this evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel...
...upon the treasury of the Association and upon voluntary effort for all additional needs. This decision has been justified by the result. During its first three years, which have not been favorable years for new enterprises, the Magazine with this assistance has steadily increased its number of subscribers, has met the necessary expenditures required for its publication, its office expenses, and for the distribution of such sample copies and other information in regard to it as a vigorous business policy demanded, and has enabled the management to create and maintain for it such a character as, we believe, will make...
...preliminary expenses are decreasing, it easily can and rightly ought to be self-supporting; where it should no longer expect either money or services as gifts; but where it should make its subscription price sufficiently large to enable it to meet all ordinary running expenses. These can be satisfactorily met by doubling the present subscription price, provided all present subscribers can be retained and a normal rate of increase maintained. The annual subscription price has, therefore, been raised to two dollars; the business office has been put upon a purely business basis, with better preparations for meeting the demands upon...
Saturday's victory over Pennsylvania was extremely gratifying, not only as victory where Harvard had first met with defeat, but as evidence of improvement in the playing of the team. The series with Yale is so rapidly drawing near that every gain by the nine is now particularly valued. The game with Pennsylvania was distinctly encouraging. Without their captain, the nine still played cooly and steadily, - a virtue which will go far towards making up for lack of brilliant play. The men are to be congratulated on their well-deserved success, and should be warmly supported in the final effort...
...Corporation met during the week. Its most interesting act was the passing of a statute in regard to caps, hoods and gowns as academic costumes. The statute had been agreed upon by representatives from Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and one or two other colleges - Harvard not included - and is recommended to all institutions of learning in the country. Bachelor's, master's, and doctor's degrees, and members of the Faculty have distinguishing gowns, the latter also having differences of color, thus: Faculty and Art Letters, white; Faculty of Theology, scarlet; Faculty of Law, purple; Faculty of Medicine, green; Faculty...