Word: haverford
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Chess Club of Columbia College it is said has thus far defeated the University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, Harvard College, and now adds a game with Yale to an unbroken record. Challenges to engage in similar games have been sent to Princeton and Williams Colleges, but have as yet been unanswered...
...which stirred the club to its very depths. Charles Shirts, that emissary of evil, had actually been tendered a dinner (think of it!) in Boston, the home of the Poncas and the Daily Evening Tramp. A meeting was immediately called by the chairman, Mr. Alson Broncott; the President of Haverford College was expelled from the club for his offensive remarks at that dinner; and the club unanimously decided to hold an anti-Shirts gathering. The editor of the Tramp said that she would bear all expenses, if every member of the club would send in a year's subscription...