Word: chess
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THIRTY-ONE gentlemen have signified their willingness to join a Chess Club. The club will not be formed unless thirty-five members can be obtained...
...LARGE and enthusiastic meeting was held last Friday for the purpose of forming a Chess Club. The following officers were elected: President, W. S. Andrews, '80; Vice-President, H. I. Thomsen, '81; Secretary, J. A. C. Wright, '81; Treasurer, H. M. Hubbard, '82. The club intend to procure and furnish a room. A meeting to adopt constitution and transact other business will be held Thursday. The managing committee of the American Chess Congress have written, urging that the club be represented at the National Congress to be held in New York this winter. It is hoped the club will...
...MOVEMENT is on foot to establish a chess club in the College...
WHEN the class of '74 was in college, the characteristic feature of Harvard life was the formation of societies. It was then that the Cricket Club and the Athletic Association came into being. The same period saw the birth of Le Cercle Francais, the Chess Club, and the Foot Ball Club; while the College Telegraph Company, which has since been metamorphosed into the College Telephone Company, does not date from an earlier epoch. Several of these organizations have ceased to have any real existence as societies, or even any nominal existence in the Index; but if the energetic...
...Chronicle boasts that the Michiganders are not as other men are, rejoicing in the absence of college sports at Ann Arbor, and only lately proposing chess as a substitute for them...