Word: met
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...time to time additional men will be taken as they prove their right to the honor. This really marks the beginning of the training of the team, although as we all know the squads have been working faithfully since the Christmas vacation. The almost unparalleled success which Harvard has met with in track athletics during the last fourteen or fifteen years has a tendency to inspire over confidence, a misfortune the evil consequences of which we may some day bitterly realize. Just why we have had so much success, is perfectly plain. In the first place there is Mr. Lathrop...
...Yale Lawn Tennis Association met Wednesday and elected the following officers: President, A. M. Pope of St. Louis; vice-president, H. E. Hewlett of Babylon, N. Y.; secretary and treasurer, W. K. Fowler of Brooklyn. Over $1300 has just been subscribed toward putting the grounds of the association in order, and a prosperous season is expected...
...being precipitated by his fear of an examination for the position of Clerk of Journals to the House of Lords. He had first attempted suicide, but had failed in the effort. After eighteen months in an asylum he recovered and went to Huntington to see his brother. Here he met the Unwins and soon became an inmate of their home. On the death of Mr. Unwin the family went to Olney and Cowper with them. Due greatly to the bad influence of a Mr. Newton, curate of the parish, in 1773 his malady again returned and through his long illness...
...met Lady Austen, and soon there grew up a close friendship. Her lively spirits drove the melancholy from him. In one of his fits of depression, she related to him the story of John Gilpin, which amused him so much that during the night he wrote it in poetry and repeated it at breakfast. At the suggestion of his new friend, he began "The Task", which was published in 1785, immediately ensuring his reputation. It illustrates the light of religious yearning of the time, but is famous because of the beautiful and truthful descriptions of nature and of domestic scenes...
...class may take no little pride. During those three hours or so in the Tremont House, the Juniors seemed to combine as one to show a lively interest, not only in the class, but in old Harvard itself. It was the first occasion on which they had met as a body. It is the one time in the whole four years of college life which they will look back upon as a landmark, about which to group so many of their college associations and experiences. If, then, the affair had been a half-hearted one they could only have carried...