Word: metting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...finances of the Mott Haven team are likely to be in a sad state this year. The amount of money which will be at the team's disposal depends very largely on the financial condition of the Athletic Association, and the efforts of this association have so far met with little response from the students...
...seems to us that this is not at all as it should be. In the first place, the Mott Haven team deserves better of the University. It has been the one form of athletic contests in which Harvard has, of late, met Yale with a great degree of success. Success has not come easily: it has been the result of hard thought, hard training, and great effort. Success, moreover, has not been of slight moment: the games are widely recognized as one of the chief tests of athletic superiority among the universities. Appreciation of honest effort and well-won success...
...difficult question of the expenses of the trip has to be met. Interest in cricket is so small here that games bring expenses and not receipts. Money for the trip therefore, if it is to be raised at all, must come directly from the students. Since the experiment is at present being made of uniting all athletic expenses under one management, we should depreciate, as out of sympathy with the spirit of this experiment, any ordinary door-to-door canvassing. The club ought to be as nearly as possible self-supporting, and to rely for funds rather on additions...
...captains of the class teams, which are to run at the South Armory, Saturday, met at the gymnasium yesterday and drew for positions. '97 got the pole, with '94, '95, '96 in the order named...
...inducing Yale to play a decisive game, or, in fact, any game at all. One year she persisted in refusing to play, and another year would not play off the tie. Now the tables are turned; Yale is strong and Harvard is very weak. And yet Harvard has met Yale and, without a quibble, has agreed to play two games and a tie if necessary. It is brave, straightforward, and sportsmanlike action, and, whatever the result of the games, the University will heartily approve of this method of meeting opponents...