Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...cable chess match between teams representing American and English universities which was held on Saturday, resulted in a victory for the Americans, who, by winning three games and tying two, scored 4 points to the English team's 1. W. W. Parshley '09 played a draw game with J. M. Lee of Cambridge University...
...army. After a short period of service he was forced to retire from the army on account of ill health and he entered the Harvard Law School in 1867. After his graduation from the Law School he practiced law in Boston and with Oliver Wendell Holmes '61 edited the American Law Review. In 1875 Mr. Sedgwick moved to New York and was admitted to the bar there. He was for some years on the editorial staff of the Evening Post and of the Nation and has besides written several treatises...
...ninth inter-university cable chess match between Harvard, Princeton, Pennsylvania, and Columbia on one side, and Oxford and Cambridge Universities on the other will be played tomorrow from Alexander Hall, Princeton. The American team will begin play tomorrow at 10 o'clock, which, on account of the difference in time between this country and England, makes the English team begin at 3 P.M. Each man will play one game at the rate of 25 moves an hour. The following men will constitute the American team: first board--L. J. Wolff, Columbia; second board--W.H. Hughes, Pennsylvania; third board...
...Eaton was until recently dramatic critic of the New York Sun, and has written much for other papers and for magazines. He is also author of "The American Stage of Today...
...Brush Club will hold its annual dinner at the Hotel Westminster this evening at 7 o'clock. Mr. Frank Miles Day of Philadelphia, formerly president of the American Institute of Architects, will be the principal speaker, and several members of the Faculty will also speak. The dinner will be open to members of the club and to invited guests...