Word: mets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual comment it was an eminently fair one. When consideration is given to the basis upon which the award of prizes was evidently made no other bestowal of the prizes could have been just. Natural ness was without question the most notable and most admirable in these speakers who met the approval of the gentlemen who acted as judges. Mr. Page and Mr. Knowles certainly spoke in a manner worthy of the recognition which they received. To compare the speaking of last evening with that of last year would be difficult and without reason. Each contest posseses its peculiarities...
...later on invited us to go to America, all our men had gone off home or to different places, and it would have been impossible to get them together. So we did not accept, but while we were training for the race on the Thames with Oxford, I met ex-President Brandagee of the Harvard club, and he again extended the invitation. I spoke to our captain, but nothing was done, because we were so busy. After the race the matter was talked over, and I wrote privately to Mr. Coolidge of the Harvard club...
About fifty members of the Co-operative Society met last evening in Sever 11 to discuss the new plan for the conduction of the Society, published in Wednesday's issue. Professor Taussig explained the provisions of the new scheme, which were adopted by an unanimous vote, with a few unimportant amendments. It was moved by Mr. Furber that the business of the Society be thrown open to all members of the University for the remainder of the college year. An amendment that goods be sold to non-members at a slight advance on the regular price was lost. The original...
...last lecture of the course on rail roads was delivered last night. The audience was the largest that has attended on any evening. At the close of the lecture Mr. Hadley stated that the audiences of Sever Hall were without exceptions the most attentive ones he had ever met in his life, and amidst applause the lecturer withdrew from the platform. The course has certainly been a very instructive and enjoyable one, fully satisfying all expectations raised by comments on Mr. Hadley before he came to Harvard...
Commenting on the prospects of a race between Cambridge and Harvard, the London Sporting Life says: "The race between Cambridge and Harvard will create an enormous amount of interest all over the world, and the latter university are to be congratulated on the success which their representatives have met with in inducing the Cantabs to cross the Atlantic. Mr. E. D. Brandegee and Mr. Arthur B. Fainzel, although they have not yet been able to absolutely settle the matter, have carried the negotiations so far that practically everything is arranged, and, unless something unforeseen happens, the visit will take place...