Word: metting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of delegates met in New York last week to arrange an intercollegiate fencing contest. Columbia's representative was L. M. Lawson. A. G. Thatcher was the delegate from the Harvard Fencing Club. Yale failed to send a delegate. A series of tournaments was arranged to be held in New York and Boston alternately. A silver cup has been offered by two prominent New York fencers to be awarded to the winning team...
...April 7 H. M. Wheelwright '94, R. B. Beals '94, and G. Crompton '96, of Harvard, and Wolcott, Wade, Brooks and Wright, of Yale, met in Springfield to make arrangements for the coming track athletic meeting at New Haven. The total weight of the hammer for the future was fixed at sixteen pounds. Starters in the bicycle race who overstep the mark are hereafter to be subject to penalty...
Professor Norton well characterized Howells at an authors' meeting which was held in Boston some seven years ago when he said "And as I came up I met Lemuel Barker on the stairs." In Howells we see one of the few representatives of what is called the new method, who have made themselves famous among English speaking people. In spite of all that is said about the prejudice and obstinacy of our English brothers, it is from the American people that Howells has received the severest opposition in his efforts to carry out this new method. It was in Howells...
...committee on football revision met in New York on Saturday and agreed upon the following changes in the rules...
Again we wish to speak of the importance of the competitive debate tonight as the initial step in the contest with Yale. When Harvard and Yale first met in debate the contrast between the trios of debaters was almost painful, but steadily the contrast has been growing less. Harvard has not lost ground, she has, in fact, noticeably improved; but Yale has improved still more and it is only a question of time, if the present rate of improvement on both sides is allowed to continue, when Yale will prove herself superior to Harvard in debate...