Word: england
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...second round of the whist tournament for the University championship was won by M. Hyman 3L., and L. Wirtheimer '02. A. C. England, 2 M., and A. J. Halle 3L., were tied with B. F. Nourse '01 and H. Rawson '01 for second. The winner of a match between the last two pairs will play the first mentioned pair for the final round...
...collection of photographs of the sculptures on the Marcus Aurelius Antoninus column in Rome. The collection is called "Ble Marous-Saule auf Piazza Colonna in Rom." Another recent purchase is a miscellaneous collection of leaflets and pamphlets belonging to Sir Thomas Phillips, issued by the Middle Hill Press in England. The collection relates to matters of interest from a historical and antiquarian point of view. The correspondence of Sir Frederic Madden, relating to his edition of the old English poem, "Havelock, the Dane," has also been purchased...
...Harvard Yacht club has made plans for a club cruise next summer, along the coast of New England. A number of members have already decided to go, some only for a short time, and others for the whole cruise. The fleet will start from New Haven on July 22 and will sail eastward to Newport, disbanding there the day before the arrival of the New York Yacht Club. Later in the summer, the "North of the Cape" division of the fleet will rendezvous at Marblehead, and cruise to Isleboro...
Bishop Potter them turned to the methods used in England for checking official corruption. He went on to say that in the first place, no great European city, be it London, Berlin or Paris, harbors the official corruption which stares us in the face throughout out own country. Of the $7,000,000 recently spent in one year by the municipal government of London, not one penny went for other than honest purposes. This showing is remarkable; the credit for it belongs wholly to the existence every-where in England and her colonies, of an active, alert, public opinion...
...Clapp 1 Dv. won the New England fencing championship in foils, held at the B. A. A. on April 13, and was awarded the championship gold medal. G. H. Breed of the Boston Y.M.C.A. won the duelling swords championship...