Word: comee
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Neither Southard nor Arensberg, who composed last year's winning team, has come out this year. The absence of Southard makes the tournament closer and more interesting than it has been for several years. His playing was far above the average, as is shown by the fact that he won twenty-two games in succession for Harvard. Catchings, the president of the Chess Club, was substitute on the team last year and also played in the international match. Perry, who won the fall tournament, played on the Worcester Academy team last year, and has made a good showing against prominent...
...self-government, and after that year the Boers became entirely unaccustomed to independent government. The Jameson raid was the real cause of the present disturbance, which was greatly increased by the pressure of England's claims to suzerainty. If Great Britain had thrown aside these claims she would have come to peaceable conclusions. Gold was discovered and the land formerly belonging to the government was acquired by the Uitlanders on the understanding that the government was to receive royalties on it. The continual flow of capital into the Transvaal gives proof that the mining interests were not injured...
...thirds of the people in the Transvaal was such as to bring on war in any case. There is no probability of a more peaceful attitude toward the Uitlanders in future, because the younger Boers are more hostile to them than the older men. The change was bound to come, and would have come by a revolution, if England had not interfered...
...used the reading room of the Library recently the increase of noisiness on the part of students, over any previous year must be apparent. Until recently there has been some sort of regard for the proprieties of a place where many men are obliged to come for study and research: now, however, there is a continuos undercurrent of talking, tramping of feet and banging of chairs. Nothing is more annoying in such a place than a scuffing of feet, a drum beat on the resonant desk, or a dry episode coming from three benches away. Some communication is necessary...
...Senior election for First, Second, and Third Marshals, Secretary, Orator, Poet, Ivy Orator, Odist, and Chorister, will be held today between 8 a. m. and 5 p. m. in Brooks House, ground floor, east. Voters are requested to enter the House through the door facing Holden Chapel. Men should come between hours as much as possible to avoid the rush just after lectures...