Word: chess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last night, the Harvard Chess Club staged a simultaneous tourney in the Dunster Large Common Room with Harlow B. Daly, Massachusetts State Champion, as guest...
...best talent that Harvard had to offer but attempted the sizeable feat to taking it all on at once. Four tables were set up in the form of a square, leaving a space inside for the state champion as he matched wits with 15 students, each with a separate chess board and lined up along the outside edges of the tables...
Every year, the Chess Club sends a five-man team to New York during Christmas vacation to compete in a tourney among teams of the Big Four colleges, who are fighting it out for possession of the Belden Stephens Trophy, a cup offered to the team which wins five years in succession...
...need for players on this year's team is pressing, emphasize club officials, since practically all the veterans have left college, In addition to entering the New York tourney, the club competes in the Boston Chess League and hold meetings throughout the year...
...undergraduate today returning to the building will lose his eyebrows in the stratosphere. Specially, a door has been carved from the kitchen to the entrance hall; tables and chairs, light maple with stiff backs, crowd the lounge, newspaper, and chess rooms; the piano sits sullenly in the entrance hall; the radio hides somewhere upstairs; and worst of all, the sanctified first floor lavatory has been opened out into the old zoo, displacing a lion's skin, and gleaming in the aluminum splendor of steam-tables a la mode...