Word: metting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Joseph H. Sears '89, Walter Camp of Yale, John C. Bell of U. of P., Alexander Moffett and Captain Cochrane of Princeton, Professor Dennis and Captain Beacham of Cornell met at the University Club, New York, Saturday, to discuss plans for a more uniform set of football rules. As the delegates were not authorized to decide anything for the colleges which they represented, nothing definite was done. A compromise between the rules used by U. of P. and Harvard and those used by Yale and Princeton was favored. The next meeting will be March...
...many small clubs have been organized, and the college papers have been full of the subject. There is no doubt that Yale is making unusual efforts to beat Harvard this year in debating, the one event in which she has regularly been successful. This enthusiasm at Yale must be met by an equal enthusiasm here in Cambridge. We must not rest nor relax our training for a moment until we have won the final contest of the year...
...committee which was appointed to select a course for the four-cornered 'varsity race met in New York Saturday, but adjourned without reaching a decision. Harvard and Pennsylvania favored Saratoga, while Columbia and Cornell favored the Poughkeepsie course...
...reason that the result of this debate is unusually gratifying is that an extraordinary interest in debating has been developed this year at Princeton. Chagrined al the defeat her representatives met at the hands of Harvard last year, Princeton has this year been making the most strenuous efforts to win the debate, and her speakers were trained with the utmost care. In spite of all this Harvard is again victorious, and her record is still unblemished. We are justly proud of our debaters...
...Whist Club has arranged a series of matches in which the best players of New England will be met. On March 13 a match (long suit) will be played with the American Whist Club; on March 17, Newton Whist Club; on March 21, American Whist Club (short suit); on March 23, the Mercantile Library Association, champions of New England; on March 28, the Yale Whist Club...