Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...headed by a professional promoter, one A. Winslow Lowell, working on commission. It appeared further that Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and close friends believed that the enterprise would be a failure and left the project strictly alone, although saying nothing. Mr. Pettey did not know Mr. Wilson, had never met him, but once (as a stenographer) had taken down a speech he made. Promoter Lowell had never even seen Woodrow Wilson. How the sum of $5,500,000 was fixed upon and exactly how it was to be spent were points the two promoters did not make clear, except that they...
...inaugurated in 1852, and kept up spasmodically until 1864, when the annual race became an athletic fixture, it was not until 1868, when Baseball was added, that general interest was aroused. In the fall of 1875 Football was put on the list, and in 1879 Harvard and Yale first met in Track Athletics. In other words, athletic contests between Harvard and Yale, in more than one form, cover a period of a quarter of a century...
Today as the crowds shuffle laboriously across the Anderson bridge, the phantom forms of John Harvard and Eli Yale stalk through their midst, arm in arm, returning to Cambridge after many historic conflicts on the football field. They have met many times before, and in many different situations: in Hamilton Park, New Haven, for the first time, on neutral ground at Spring-field, in Boston baseball parks, in New York, and for years now, alternately in the Bowl and the Stadium. Theirs is the longest football tradition in the country. Between them, they have fathered that ungainly child, the modern...
Plans for a Graduate School Basketball League were set in motion when voluntary committees met D. J. Kelly, assistant director of physical education, in Hemenway Gymnasium recently...
This year the order of the games has been arranged in a more climactic order than was the case a year ago, when Dartmouth was encountered in the middle of the season. The Green will be met this year on February 20, a week prior to the wind-up against the Eli sextet on February...