Word: mets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Death of Shelley," an imaginative account of the way in which the poet met his death, is interesting and well written. Dialogue which is apt to fall into colloquialism is here happily prevented from sinking down...
...Yale was the best generaled team in the field. In meeting Princeton, they played their heavy runners with only an occasional kick when forced, but when they met the heavy charging of Harvard, they stubbornly fought the ground inch by inch, and never used their best runners until they had driven the ball by a kick well down. In this way they had ever a strong fresh man for a dash up the goal, and an almost infallible kicker to send the ball skimming over...
...January 10, by the invitation of the college authorities, a sitting was held at Cambridge of the Seventh Congress of the National Society of French Professors residing in Engiand. M. Waddington, the French Ambassador, presided. In his address, M. Waddington said that last year the society had met at Oxford by invitation of that university. He hoped the language which the society represented would soon be placed on a par with the classics. The modern school had not yet taken the position it deserved, and Moliere and Goethe should be studied by the side of Euripides and Sophocles...
Fourteen candidates for the University crew met Saturday and began to row in the shell which has been placed in the tank in the gymnasium. Besides the rowing the candidates will take a long run every day and work in the gymnasium. They will devote two full hours a day to training and rowing. Rowing on the harbor will be begun as soon as the weather will permit...
...woman. This number is entirely too small, and is much less proportionately, than that at West Point. To bring things up to a proper standard three men cooks should be added at a cost of $140 per month. This expense seems great but it can easily be met in any of three ways, either by adding four cents to the weekly board, by dropping one of the four vegetables served daily, or by having one course of meat instead of two on one day of the week. By making these slight changes the quality of the food would be much...