Word: met
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There was, to be sure, a proposition made last January in the Board of Overseers to raise the annual tuition fee in the College, Scientific School, and Graduate School to two hundred dollars. The proposition met with small favor; only five out of the thirty Overseers voted for it. Moreover, the members of the Corporation are understood to be emphatically against such a proposition...
Harvard has been the first to lay emphasis on the idea that college athletic games should be played on college grounds. It is interesting to see that the principle has met approval elsewhere. We are not ourselves convinced that the principle is altogether feasible: it is certainly best, all things considered, to select such grounds as will give gate receipts large enough to make private subscriptions to the teams unnecessary; and tie games cannot well be played on the grounds of either of the competing teams...
...defeats in the Mott Haven games and in baseball which Harvard met on Saturday have made the athletic outlook darker than ever. The best chance of victory which Harvard has had seemed to rest with the Mott Haven team; and yet both times Yale's team out-pointed Harvard's and did it squarely. Defeat is the ugly fact which must be accepted...
...qualities necessary to the acceptable service of God. First is the lion standing for courage. To serve God the most necessary of all things is courage. From the first to the last is needed bravery and firmness. There is always temptation to be faced, trials and dangers to be met,- without independence and a firm courage we cannot do it. Next is the ox, the being standing for strength brought under discipline. To be acceptable to God we must learn to sacrifice our own desires, to submit to His will. The third being had the face...
...briefest outline, are the main services of President Eliot to the University. No man, unless he had the highest abilities, could have done such work. With keen sagacity, he has foreseen the action of educational forces; with unfailing resources of quick intelligence, adroit action, and steady will he has met these forces and maintained the position of Harvard in all circumstances. He is a man of action; always thoroughly acquainted with the matter in hand from its broadest aspects to its minutest details, always clear as to his own intention, always calm, swift and unhesitating in its realization. No university...