Word: kubla
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...affirmed without doubt that interest in the success of the chess team has been subordinated to a less intellectual interest in the successful issue of the annual football game with Yale. In many ways this attitude is unfortunate. Chess was in vogue among the polite countiers of Kubla Khan when the game of football was played with a rough stone, kicked about the wild British moors by half-naked tribesmen. And chess will remain a noble game when the last goal post has rotted and the last pigskin has burst. To make chess less than football is to make...