Word: metting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Representations from seven schools in Connecticut met in New Haven on Saturday to form an Interscholastic Football Association. The seven teams will be divided into two divisions called the Northern and Southern divisions, the championship to be decided by the winning teams of each division. A constitution and set of by-laws were adopted and it was voted to play under the inter-collegiate rules. The league will be composed of elevens from the Hartford, Bridgeport, New Haven and Norwich high schools, Hopkins grammar School of New Haven, and several others. The champion team will receive a silver cup from...
...with all kinds of people, principally those of the lower class who seldom get a chance to hear a good preacher. Some of the preachers have been prominent clergymen in the city, such as Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks, Rev. Edward E. Hale, Rev. Phillip Moxom and others. These services met with good success; they reached the class of people for whom they were intended and there were many pathetic instances of individuals who were especially benefited by them. The City Episcopal Mission looks to us to help in the singing, it wants a good chorus of men to lead...
When Napoleon was retreating from Russia, some young men were put into service and ordered to cover up the retreat of the Prussian army. For awhile they held the crossing of a road but their position was exposed. It became impossible to hold it and they met death. Napolean afterwards said that the reason these men did not retreat was because they did not know their danger. These young men were determined. It was God for whom they fought, he gave the commands, for him they would...
...programme, for they were not in the spirit for it and sang it much less effectively than their later pieces. To be sure the song "The Rhain and the Moselle" by Ethelbert Nevin is a long and difficult composition with frequent and sudden changes in key that the club met with skill and good taste. The solo of "The Dragon" was well sung by S. E. Farwell, the accompaniment of the club being very even in this as well as in the other solos. As an encore the club sang the captivating "Interrupted Serenade...
...first place the Sophomore theatricals of late years have failed to succeed in their alleged chief purpose, - to furnish financial support for the crew. Not only has the profit of the Sophomore Theatricals been almost nothing but some years there has been a deficit which has had to be met by individual members. Again, a surprisingly large number of the D. K. E. society are agreed that the theatricals are hardly worth the having. Moreover from the artistic or dramatic point of view they can hardly be called successful and there can be no argument here for their continuance...