Word: chess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important match yesterday afternoon in the Union Common Room the Harvard A chess team defeated N. Y. U. to the tune of three...
...moving the Ping-Pong tables to the basement, where players have asserted they are willing to carry on, what is now a game room could easily be turned into a reading room. At present non-residents can study only in the common room, where piano playing, chess and checker games, and conversations are liable to interrupt the quiet at any moment. Books can be acquired with almost as little trouble and expense as a room. Out of the vastness of Widener Library a few books can well be spared to start the collection at Dudley Hall. The commuters themselves will...
...ROWLOCKS-Wilbur Daniel Steele-Harper ($2.50). First detective novel of prolific Author Steele, best known for his short stories. The Sound of Rowlocks achieves a happy balance between a novel and the conventional detective story. Faced with the problem of presenting flesh-&-blood characters as pawns in a chess puzzle, most writers satisfy neither the novel reader nor the mystery addict. But Wilbur Daniel Steele does well by both. Background and atmosphere are authentic; the characters are clear but not overdeveloped; the plot is ingenious, well-planned, addict-proof...
...chairman strikes a sour note in the policies of the chief executive. He has raised a delicate legal question that may drag on for months, but whatever the decision, this struggle of personalities is another proof of the peculiar opportunism which the President has always possessed. He is a chess player whose plan consists of a vast desire to win, whose method is to cope with each situation when it comes up and not before, hardly troubling himself to look more than one move ahead. This time he seems to have worked himself into a hole...
Taking revenge for its 2-4 defeat by the Boston City Club early in the season the Harvard B chess team defeated the Boston City Club 4 1/2 to 1 1/2 Saturday night, in what was probably the deciding match of the Metropolitan League competition...