Word: met
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...almost felt that he was among the people himself, and was himself noting down their peculiarities of character, manner and custom. He spoke about the trial of Mrs. Besant; of various London Clubs which he visited; of an Oxford commemoration exercise he attended, and of different people he met, always noting the peculiar national traits, which are foreign to our American ideas...
...Friday the representatives of the college papers at U. of P. met and decided to form a Press Club. the aims of the organization being very similar to those of the recently formed Press Club at Cornell...
...Department of Superintendence of the National Educational Association met in Boston Tuesday and in Cambridge yesterday and will meet in Boston again today. We give below a summary of the speeches of the morning, afternoon and evening sessions held here yesterday...
Swift was born poor. He lived as a child in an atmosphere of debt, difficulty, and dependence on bounty. At college, be met only failure and disgrace. It was not till he was settled as the secretary of Sir William Temple, one of the most diplomatic counsellors and elegant scholars of the realm, that Swift found himself in congenial circumstances. Out of the great library, he stocked his mind with the literary and political knowledge that made his after career possible...
...committee for the exhibit of the women's colleges of Massachusetts at the World's Fair met on Thursday with Mr. Hovey, secretary and treasurer and executive commissioner for Massachusetts. Wellesley, Smith, Harvard Annex and Mt. Holyoke are the only women's colleges in Massachusetts, and the committee for the exhibit consists of President Seelye of Smith. Mr. Gillman of the Annex, Prof. Hooker of Mt. Holyoke, and Prof. Whiting chairman of the Wellesley committee...