Word: metting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...RIDGE, N. Y., May 3. - The Harvard College lacrosse team, which is to play an intercollegiate championship game tomorrow with the Stevens Institute lacrosse team at New York, met the Crescents of Brooklyn, here today, and was defeated by a score of four goals to two goals. The game, although very interesting, was witnessed by only a small crowd of spectators. No scoring was accomplished in the first half, but in the second half, the Crescents scored the first three goals in seven, twelve and two minutes, respectively, while the next three were scored in four, five and three minutes...
Harold E. Buttrick of Brooklyn, N. Y., the first speaker for Yale, said: "The income tax law of 1894 was an unnecessary revenue measure. We do not oppose an ideal tax, but the income tax law was passed to meet a deficit which should have been met by economy. It was sectional, too; an attack on the east by the west and the south. The income tax law of 1894 was vicious as a practical measure and violates every principle upon which a genuine income tax is based. The law was an attack of socialists and populists upon capital...
...Frank Rall, of Des Moines, Iowa, was the second Yale speaker. He said: "The friends of the income tax law base their defence largely upon the financial need. Their argument rests upon two false assumptions: that the measure met this need, and that it was the best way of meeting it. The need was an immediate one, but no revenues could come from this tax for ten months, and the amount even then would be uncertain. A better source of aid was open - the internal revenue taxes. Here was a source of revenue, three times that estimated for this...
...depends to a large degree on the success of the nine. If true, this shows a deplorable state of affairs. Harvard men should be the last to forget that the obligation to support a team is only increased by a temporary lack of success. That the nine has unfortunately met with several defeats at the beginning of the season, and has not played fully up to the hopes of the College, is far from excusing the neglect with which it has so far met. Students show themselves much too willing to credit rumors of the weakness of the nine...
Delegates from the graduate clubs of various American colleges met in their first convention at the Buckingham Hotel New York, last Monday to discuss matters affecting the interests of graduate students. Henry A. Cushing of Columbia College was made president...