Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...seventh international cable chess match between teams from Harvard, Yale and Columbia and Oxford and Cambridge was played on Saturday, and resulted in a draw, each side winning two games. The other two games were drawn. The American team played at the Rice Chess Club, New York, while the English players were at the Metropolitan Chess Club in London. Q. A. Brackett '07 of Harvard and L. J. Wolff of Columbia won their games for America, and J. R. Hanning and N. J. Roughton scored for England...
...Freshman class dinner will be held in the American House, Boston, on Tuesday, April 2. Tickets will be $2 each and can be obtained on and after Monday at the Rendezvous from 11.30 A. M. to 1.30 P. M., and from 6 to 8 P. M. Men desiring tickets will be obliged to present their receipts for the bond deposit...
...inter-university cable chess match between Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia on one side, and Oxford and Cambridge Universities on the other, will be played today. The American team will begin play at New York this morning at 7.45 o'clock, to allow for the difference in time between this country and England. Each man will play one game, at the rate of 25 moves an hour, with a man representing the English team. The country winning the majority of games will win the challenge cup, which was won by Oxford two years...
...Samuel Atkins Eliot '84 of Boston, will preach in Appleton Chapel tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. Dr. Eliot was secretary of the American Unitarian Association from 1898 to 1900 and has been president of that organization since...
...against the Yale freshmen will be held tonight at 7 o'clock in Dane Hall. Each of the men retained at the first trial will deliver a 10-minute speech on either side of the question for the debate: "Resolved, That, if constitutional. United States shipping engaged in South American trade should be subsidized." On the basis of these speeches, six men will be chosen for the final trial next Tuesday. Coach G. J. Hirsch '07, G. C. Good '09, and F. T. Wentworth '09 will act as judges...