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Word: chess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Most men appear to think that when they have purchased a print or two, the moral character of which is regulated by the reputation which they desire to maintain; when they have been elected to the St. Paul's, the Chess Club, the Institute, or the Athenaeum, etc., ad infinitum, and have encircled their shingles with gray passe-partouts; when they have carelessly slung any medals that they may possess over the shingles aforesaid, and when they have put photographs of a popular actress or two - probably Rosina Vokes, and some loose character in tights - on their mantelpieces, they have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PICTURES AND SO FORTH. | 12/24/1875 | See Source »

UNDERGRADUATES desiring to join the Chess Club are requested to send their names...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 10/15/1875 | See Source »

...Chess Club have voted to hold no more meetings this year, and postpone the Yale game until next term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 6/4/1875 | See Source »

...Chess Club have voted to make arrangements immediately for playing a match with Yale. The first game will probably be played at the beginning of next term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/7/1875 | See Source »

PRINCE LEOPOLD is the President of the Oxford Chess Club. Cambridge has won from Oxford two matches out of three; winning in all 32 games out of 42. In the athletic contest the high jump was won by Oxford, the bar being cleared at 5 feet 9 inches. Oxford won the mile race in 4 minutes 34 4/6 seconds; and the quarter-mile in 51 1/2 seconds. In the long jump the Oxford representative cleared 21 feet 1/2 inch. The three-mile race was won by Oxford in 15 minutes 30 2/3 seconds. Can our Athletic Club beat these figures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 5/7/1875 | See Source »

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