Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first heard of the great stone-built cities of the tropical New World from the Spanish conquerors. Columbus, on his fourth and last voyage, in 1502, just missed becoming the discoverer of Yucatan when he failed to follow a canoe believed to have been filled with Yucatans, which he met off the coast of what is now Honduras...
...fact of baseball's decline was clearly shown. Instances were cited of major league Solons offering their co-operation to amateur agencies for reviving the sport, of professionalism feeling the pinch of a player famine. And dislike of professionalism was evident in the refusals with which these offers met...
...league is to be formed, and that the objections Harvard and Yale had to the previous league--such as the fact that Harvard could not close its season with the Yale game, but had to continue a week or two longer against other opponents, like Haverford--were to be met. As one interested in soccer both at school and since, I wonder if another improvement might not be agreed on before the articles of the new league are definitely drawn...
College athletics were both upheld and condemned successfully by the University affirmative and negative debating squads, which defeated the Brown and Wesleyan speakers respectively in the first triangular meeting of the Eastern Intercollegiate Debating League held on Saturday night. The negative team which met the Wesleyan debaters in Paine Hall of the Music Building, and the affirmative squad which faced Brown at Providence, both received a 2 to 1 vote from the judges after arguing the question, "Resolved: That this House deplores the condition of athletics in eastern colleges...
...Barrett Williams, although victorious in the eyes of the judges, were not the choice of the audience which voted 20 to 17 for the Wesleyan team. No popular vote was taken at the Providence meeting. F. S. Tupper '26 and Garroll Sibley '28, the members of the affirmative team, met the Brown squad on the same question...