Word: met
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last evening the committee on the Lerter cup series met the captains of several of last year's scrub teams and discussed plans for this year. Nothing final was decided but it is probable that the schedule system will be in general much the same as last year. It is also probable that some advantage will be given to the teams that made a good showing last year in order so far as possible to make it a permanent custom for scrub teams to hold together from year to year...
...novels in her earlier style,- "Indiana," "Valentine," "Lelia," and "Jacques,"- belong distinctly to the history of romanticism. They met with an extraordinary success, which was due to their conformity to the state of the contemporary mind, to their eloquence, an unusual quality in the novel,- and finally to the fact that these books approached questions of universal interest and of vital importance to the very existence of society...
...Football Rules Committee met in New York Saturday night. Several rules lacking clearness were gone over and it was agreed to affix a note giving the committee's interpretation of them. The rules will also be re-arranged and indexed. One more meeting at least will be held before the committee announces its conclusions...
...response to Captain Bigelow's call for bicycle men twelve candidates met in the Trophy Room yesterday afternoon. Until the track on Holmes Field is in good condition, the work of the squad will consist of daily gymnasium exercise followed by road riding...
Lamartine's imagination was stimulated by his visit to Italy in 1812 when he met Gragiella, and by his visit to Aix where he came into relations with the original of his Elvire. As for his own personal nature, he is essentially an optimist. In this way he was able to give their true poetic value to those sentiments which are the very substance of lyric poetry. Love he considers an eternal sentiment; death the dawn of a glorious immortality. In nature he sees a comforter of man. His religious sentiment is a belief in the existence of the Creator...