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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With a brilliant and consistent display of racquet wielding and footwork, which kept his opponent baffled, R. S. Wright '26, yesterday afternoon captured the College Squash title by defeating Captain G. D. Debevoise '26 15--9, 15--18, 15--7, and 18--17. Yesterday's contest brought out the best squash run on the University courts this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRIGHT DEFEATS SQUASH CAPTAIN TO TAKE CROWN | 12/9/1925 | See Source »

Within the Abbey, the Queens of England, Norway and Spain were waiting together with an innumerable assembly of the nobility of Europe, and such English civil dignitaries as Premier Baldwin and his Cabinet. The U. S. Ambassador and Mrs. Houghton were present amid a brilliant assembly of the various diplomatic corps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Rites | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

...induced him, at the age of eight, to take a holiday and go to school. He went through college, where he interested himself in science, history, art, music, sport. Then he began to play chess again, and the story of his life is the graph of a series of brilliant moves from the little square of one country to the little square of another. After winning 99 tournament games, he wrote a book, My Chess Career, which contains many remarkable statements, such as the following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Moscow | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

Team A, with Captain Debevoise playing a brilliant game, took the Union Boat Club team into camp, losing only two games. Visions of another state and possibly national championship outfit were indicated in the 5 to 0 score turned in by the Class A racquetmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RACQUETMEN START ON LONG ROAD TO STATE CHAMPIONSHIP | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

Geneva is the only visitor entirely new to Cambridge. The new eleven halls from Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, and will be coached by Bo MacMillan, former Center College captain, whose brilliant eleven downed Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1926 CRIMSON SCHEDULE TO INCLUDE TUFTS AND GENEVA | 12/2/1925 | See Source »

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