Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came from the little fishing village at Lequeitio, Spain, where Prince Otto has grown up in exile, tutored by monks, supported by King Alfonso XIII of Spain and the contributions of loyal Austro-Hungarian nobles. As Otto's impoverished little suite descended at the Luxembourg station, they were met by a half dozen open landeaux, bearing the arms of Luxembourg. Whips cracked, the landeaux rattled merrily down a long avenue and over a viaduct, picked their way through cobbled, streets, drew up before the withered wooden Palace. Straightway "Little Otto," a chubby sapling in a Byronic collar, handsome, frank...
...Harvard baseball team enters its twelfth game of the season this afternoon when it meets Wesleyan in a contest scheduled for 4 o'clock. The visitors from Connecticut are not expected to offer much opposition to the Crimson nine, for they have met with rough treatment at the hands of three of the teams they have encountered this spring. The only victory on the Middeltown nine's list thus far is a 2 to 1 ten-inning decision over Lowell Textile. The three teams which have taken Wesleyan's measure and the margin of their victories are Columbia...
Members of the University are being given one more opportunity to signify their desire for a dining hall. Neither the Union club-tables arrangement nor the proposal that groups definitely express their inclination for a Commons has met with success, and consequently there has been no progress. Now, however, a petition, fully sanctioned and authorized by President Lowell, will be circulated in an attempt to secure signatures of five hundred men who will pledge themselves to eat in such an establishment for one half year. If this number of men signs the University promises a hall to be opened next...
Four discussion groups met for some weeks. During the fall a Social Problems group meet weekly with F. P. Taft E. T. S. as Chairman. A group on Economic problems. E. M. Winslow 1G., Chairman held five meetings during the fall. Three of them were led by Professors Carrer, M. T. Copeland, and Walker. The average attendance at these meetings was twenty. An interesting group. The Quarter Century, continued on this year as last with T. E. Terrill 2G, as chairman. The four topics discussed by this group were of timely import, the problems facing the turn of the second...
...Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology met at Rochester, N. Y., last week; gave visitors opportunities to explain and to learn...