Word: drawn
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of the Chess and Whist Club in the D. U. Rooms last night, Mr. Franklin K. Young, for many years champion chess player of New England, gave an exhibition of simultaneous play. Out of eleven simultaneous games Mr. Young won all but four and of these three were drawn. The names of the players and of the winners, together with the openings, are given below...
...position on Monday next. Mr. Putnam is a son of the well known publisher of that name. After graduating from Harvard he spent a year in the Columbia Law School, from which he went to Minneapolis, where he was admitted to the Minnesota bar. He was soon drawn into library work, however, and became librarian of the Minneapolis Athenaeum, then containing about ten thousand volumes, which it was intended to incorporate in a larger and freer city library...
...periodic sentence. The book is not written, it is talked, and Mr. Henry James has said of it, that it is not even talked, it is smoked. Taffy, the Laird, and Little Billee are types, not individuals, but the close feeling of friendship, amounting almost to brotherhood, is masterfully drawn. The test of an imaginative work is the power it has of hypnotising its readers. Mr. Copeland felt that the first part of the book did exercise this influence upon him, but that just as soon as Trilby began to be hypnotised, he began to wake up, and from that...
Attention is again drawn in the report to the importance of Harvard's availing herself of the admirable atmospheric conditions at Arequipa. A telescope of the largest size would not only have most favorable opportunities for work, but a field unexplored with such an instrument in the southern sky. Much could be done with a smaller instrument, and at a moderate expense...
...meeting of the Deutscher Verein was held last night at the rooms of one of the members. As the old constitution of the Verein had been lost during the summer, a new one was drawn up and adopted, and a number of new members were elected...