Word: mets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Board of Overseers met yesterday, and by their action destroyed the last element of religious compulsion in the university. Harvard College, when founded in 1636, was intended to furnish an essentially religious education to its undergraduates. The ministry was then almost entirely composed of these Harvard graduates; but Harvard has outgrown all this; she is now a university with a divinity school of her own, and a law school of her own, and a scientific school of her own; she does not intend that her academic department shall turn out nothing but ministers, or nothing but lawyers, or nothing...
...judges and timers were gentlemen of the highest reputation, and prominent in athletic circles, so we may feel sure that this record will never be questioned. It was a beautiful race, and it was fairly won against the only antagonist, time. The hard and faithful training of the winter met its reward. In the name of the college, we again congratulate the winner on his great success...
...difficult to leave college than our men will, since they have but six cuts a term and for every absence from a recitation they receive a mark of zero. Why does not eighty-nine show some enthusiasm in this matter and encourage their nine to repeat the success they met with four weeks ago? Let every man in the freshman class who can possibly leave college, go and do his share towards aiding the nine to win the game, and keep the Yale freshmen off their much coveted "fence...
...final game in the preliminary series of the Amateur Championship contest was played yesterday, when the Oxfords met with a decisive defeat at the hands of the Peachblows. The final series will be played between the Baby Ansons, Peachblows, and CRIMSON. The score of yesterday's game was as follows...
Last evening the dinner of the junior class was held at the Parker House. After the more substantial part of the feast had been cleared away, the exercises of the evening were begun with an oration by Mr. Hamilton, whose witty, erudite, and inspiring words met with enthusiastic applause. After all was quiet again, President Coolidge called for the poem from Mr. Wether-bee. The piquant and poetic allusions to class victories and virtues were duly appreciated, and the flights of fancy which were interspersed, received their due meed of attention and approbation...