Word: mets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard and Cambridge have never met in this country, although a crew was sent to England by Harvard some years...
...first-class pitcher in America, it will be readily understood that if any one could knock their pitching about at pleasure, they would be rather costly at that price. The Englishmen, however, though they may have begun to suspect that there must be more in base-ball pitching than met the eye, could not but maintain their opinion that even with base-ball bats, the bowling, or rather throwing, of the best pitcher ought to be easily met...
...more thorough instruction in English. Meeting opposition on every side, in the preparatory schools, as well as among the students and in the faculty, he kept on. In spite of apathy or difference of opinion among his associates he still worked for his department. Everywhere he went he met the statement, 'I write well enough, and I was never taught English.' This hostility, or at best indifference, had to be overcome. Finally he drew to himself the young and enthusiastic supporters, with whom he has carried on the reform until the English department is accounted one of the best...
...take part, and in which probably one or two other Cambridge and Oxford colleges would be represented, Prof. Jasper T. Goodwin of Columbia College says: "The proposed plan is a most excellent one, if it can be brought about. There are certain obstacles, however, which would have to be met and overcome. In the first place, the colleges in this country would want to compete with a representative 'varsity crew, not with a crew which pretended to represent only one of the colleges of the university. I think Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell and possibly the University of Pennsylvania, would...
...conference in regard to the foot-ball question, which met on Friday last, has decided to keep its transactions secret for the present...