Word: mets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Classical Club met last night at the house of Mr. Spaulding, who read a very interesting paper on Tacitus and Tiberius...
...remember rightly Yale has hinted that our freshmen showed hesitation in accepting the challenge on account of lack of "sand," - but we naturally pass this by without further comment, simply recalling the foot-ball game between the two '90s which met with such happy results...
...worth the winning. Yale was founded in a spirit of religious sectarianism, if not intollerance, and it must be difficult for her to meet even half way the growing need of American collegiate life, chief among which, of course, is freedom of religious thought. But the demand must be met, or the college must acknowledge herself defeated. This, we are sure, will not be permitted by her undergraduate spirit of pluck and pride...
...candidates for the 'varsity nine met in Capt. Willard's room last night. A few of the members of last year's nine who are in college did not appear, although they will try for their old positions on the team and practice regularly in the gymnasium with the others. The exercise will be rather lighter this year than usual, consisting of hand-ball and chest-weights. The following men appeared: Wiestling, '87; H. Coolidge, '87; Holden, '88; Choate, '88; Henshaw, '89; Downer, '89; Morgan, '89; Clark, '89; Young, '89; Bingham, '89; Mumford, '90; Slade, '90; Smith, '90; Bigelow...
Delegates from Amherst, Brown, Dartmouth and Trinity colleges, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stevens Institute of Hoboken, N. J., met at Springfield Tuesday and organized a new foot-ball association. Representatives were present from Williams and Tufts colleges, but a motion inviting them to help organize the new association being lost, they refused to apply for admission. The new organization will be called the Eastern Foot-ball Association, and two meetings a year will be held, on the first Wednesday in October and December. A constitution presented by W. F. Morgan, jr., of Trinity, was adopted with some modifications, which...