Word: chess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Acacia Fraternity, Beta Theta Pi Club, Cercle Francais, Chinese Students' Club, Groton School Club, Harvard Aeronautical Society, Harvard Chess Club, History Club, Harvard Memorial Society, Harvard Rifle Club, Harvard Tennis Club, Hasty Pudding Club, Junto Club, K. G. X. Club, Menorah Society, Musical Club, Phoenix Club, Roxbury Latin School Club, St. Paul's School Club, Styx Club...
...Freshman chess team has just been organized and will play its first match against Boston Latin at 7.30 this evening in the Quiet Room of the Union. According to arrangements with the visiting team, two upper classmen will be allowed to play for the yearlings...
...their best. As an old lawyer once said, "The business of a lawyer is to keeps the fools out of the hands of knaves", and in the effort one sees much knavery and much folly. That gaudium certaminis which we all seek in athletic contests and in games like chess and whist the lawyer finds in daily life. The successful cross-examination of a witness, the sudden and surprising turn which a case may take, the quick retort, the eloquent argument,--all these are interesting as they occur from day to day, the victories when they come, the unmerited defeats...
...means the privilege of making the other fellow abandon his own ideas for somebody else's. At Harvard, tolerance means the privilege of minding one's own business. That explains why we do not duck a man in the Charles for not attending a mass-meeting, or for playing chess on the afternoon of the Yale game. It explains also why we do not "baby" Freshmen. We do not promise a man a better time here than else-where--as one of our correspondents seems to desire. Harvard is in this respect, a reproduction of the world outside: the competition...
...defeat was not unexpected, since in the league of eight Boston Chess Clubs to which both Boylston and the University belong, the latter is last and Boylston third. Mendon Morrill uC and Herbert Saphir 1G. were the only men to win for the University...