Word: mets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fair sized audience met in Sever 11 last evening to hear Dr. Farnham's lecture on Health and Strength. The lecture was as follows...
...delegates from the different colleges to the Inter-Collegiate Lacrosse Convention met in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday. As stated before, Harvard's delegates were Messrs. F. C. Hood, '86, and A. A. Gardner, '87. The first in the order of business was the election of officers for the coming year. They were elected as follows: president, A. A. Gardner, Harvard; vice president, B. A. Matthews, University of New York; secretary and treasurer, C. G. Riggs, Princeton. Harvard was formally awarded the championship flags for 1885. After some deliberation, Stevens Institute was admitted...
Though the extract from the Boston Transcript which we print on another page may be somewhat overdrawn, yet it cannot be denied that it contains a pretty accurate portrait of many a character to be met in college society. Whether the "clever" man be a desirable product of college education or not, it must be admitted that he is a constantly increasing quantity in our midst. But, after all, if all possessors of a degree cannot be profound, it is much better that some of them should be only "clever," rather than that the ranks of our alumni should...
...Freshman Physics room at the Annex appeared a short time ago the following inscription: "What is Physics? Ans. - The inness of the why, or x plus y equals z. Each young woman passing to her accustomed seat seemed to drink in considerable consolation from the words which met her shy and innocent glance. But it was not till the professor in the middle of a profound and lengthy explanation caught sight of and succeeded in translating it that much difficulty was experienced in keeping up an equilibrium...
...known to most of our readers that Yale athletics suffer greatly from the want of a gymnasium adequate to the needs of the large number of athletic organizations which Yale possesses. A few evenings ago a large mass meeting of the Yale students, under the presidency of Prof. Richards, met to discuss the project of a new gymnasium. According to reports five or six hundred members of the college attended the meeting, and great interest was taken. The opinion of Prof. Richards - and his opinion seems to have been shared by the students - was that it was too great...