Word: chess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the school year the largest number of jobs is found in restaurants, typing, entertainment positions, chorework, jobs as psychological subjects, chauffour work, blood donors, delivery work, and window washing. Odd jobs always turn up, such as teaching chess, modelling for artists, or directing traffic...
...conventional as a chess gambit were the first moves of the game. Vichy's loudspeakers rumbled out the most abject communiqué they had ever uttered. It began: "The Japanese Government Information Office published this morning the following declaration . . .", went on for seven paragraphs of pretty indirections. Japan and Vichy were in complete accord, had decided to "cooperate" in the "defense" of Indo-China...
...championship situation has been poor around Cambridge lately. There is no way of proving our much vaunted academic superiority and our football team hasn't been of Rose Bowl caliber since 1920. Even our chess team, once the strongest threat of our Intercollegiate aggregations, is no longer undefeated. When it becomes obvious, therefore, that in one sport we are consistently among the strongest colleges in the country we should take advantage of that fact to test our crew against the other top-notch colleges and to see if Harvard can't come out on top of the heap...
Approximately 125 Freshman entered this year's tournament, the first of its kind in Yardling history. Next year, the PBH Freshman Committee will also include chess and bridge in the inter-hall competition...
John Harvard meets the Yale Bulldog and the Princeton Tiger this Friday evening when the Yardling debating team climaxes their season with the H.Y.P. Triangular Debate Tournament. One team will face Princeton in the Chess Room of the Union at 7:30 o'clock, while the other team will present its arguments at New Haven...