Word: mets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Third, we have reason to believe that the questions have met with general approval, one proof of which is that a prominent professor of the Episcopal Theological School has assured members of the committee that the Union subjects are always selected in the debating club of that institution...
...publish to-day a communication from the executive committee of the Harvard Union. The charges recently made by the Advocate that the Union was degenerating and that meaningless speeches met with applause, and that ranting was considered brilliant, are reviewed at length. We hope that all the friends of the Union will read all the articles upon the subject which have been published, and thoughtfully make an unbiased judgment, for if the charges made by the Advocate and our correspondent are true, the training which the speakers in the Union are getting must be very harmful to their powers...
...liberal use of barriers at the entrance and end of each path. By this means only can the paths be removed. It is useless to remonstrate. The man who uses the path most, best realizes its value, and therefore can hardly be expected to forego, unless met by some convincing argument, a practice which has already become with many a habit...
...other branches have courses of a similar grade, such as History I, Chemistry I, Political Economy I; and it must be gratifying to the members of the faculty, who are anxious to increase the importance of physics in our curriculum, to see with what promptness their efforts have been met by the elective-choosing student...
...game yesterday afternoon between the freshmen and the second team of the Cambridge club was a tie, neither side scoring. The Cambridge team had the assistance of several members of the first team, but the freshmen met them at every point. During the first half Cambridge captured the ball in centre field repeatedly, but Griffing and Griswold kept it away from goal by steady playing, and the few shots made went wide...