Word: closed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Entries in the chess tournament close tonight at 6 o'clock, sharp. So few names have been signed in the blue-book at Bartlett's that the cup prospects are well-nigh desperate. If no more than 20 players enter, there can hardly be more than six players in the second round. And even strong players can play limp chess if they are left without strenuous competition. The advantage usually gained by the men that enter these tournaments is that combat between stranger styles that unfailingly leads to good chess at New York and good chess in the University...
...contest for officers and class day orators of the senior class was close, the president being elected by but one majority. They are as follows: President, Charles Pool; vice-president, George Mower; treasurer, F. E. Tellon; secretary, R. B. Whittaker; historian, C. W. Parmelee; class-day historian, George Baier; presentor of mementoes, F. Manning; Prophet, C. A. Poulsen; ivy orator, Thomas Letson; address to undergraduates, George W. Hullman; address to president, H. Mareli; orator, P. Pierson; presentor of memorials, F. Tilton; class-day orator, W. Ranney; pipe orator, Gustav Witty; poet, C. Mallery; ivy planter, A Jennings...
There is a slight probability of a game with Lowell tomorrow. A game with Broockton on Saturday, October 12, will close the season...
Professor Eli Whitney Blake, until the close of the last college year Hazard professor of physics at Brown University, died at Hampton, Conn., Tuesday, aged fifty-nine years. He was born in New Haven, his father being the well known inventor of the same name, was graduated at Yale in 1857, studied chemistry and physics in the universities of Heidelberg, Marburg and Berlin, and returning to this country was named professor of chemistry and physics in the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College. He was afterwards professor of physics and mechanic arts at Cornell University; acting professor of physics...
...close of the addresses a reception was held of all the students in Memorial Hall...