Word: met
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard beat Princeton on Saturday last in one of the most interesting and exciting games that has been played for a number of years, defeating them by a score of 11 to 5. As it was the first time that Harvard and Princeton had met on the base ball field since 1889, the game was fraught with unusual interest, and the Harvard men who went down to witness the game were doubly repaid for their trouble...
...sentiment in regard to any further extension of the hotel system. There was a very general expression of opinion in opposition to any extension. We understand that the corporation may petition to be allowed to convert five more club tables into general tables. It is this proposition that has met with such general opposition, mainly, it seems, on account of a feeling that if five more general tables were added this year, that would mean a few more next year, and so on as the number of applicants grew larger. The facts of the case contradict this apprehension. The basement...
...first remedy is for the college Faculty to announce its policy and to define its position in regard to the question. With the object in view an intercollegiate athletic conference met a few years ago and drew up a set of resolutions which were intended to unite the colleges in a definite policy. They were adopted by Harvard and Princeton, rejected by Yale, and only partially accepted by the smaller colleges. The failure of this attempt at joint regulation and control of athletics resulted in the present system of athletic control at Harvard. The then existing evils were gradually checked...
When the crisis came he met it gloriously. In 1823 he sailed for Greece, in three months restored order and died of the fever, far beyond the blame of Britain or the praise of Greece...
There are few of the men in college that were in Cambridge at this time last year who have forgotten the sad news that met them on their return to work, - the announcement of the death of Adelbert Shaw '94. Those who knew him will always remember that earnest, straightforward character which made him so much esteemed by all the college in the few months he was with us. To the younger classes who come here too late to know him, his name will be handed down as that of a man who, though difficulties stood in his path, fought...