Word: lastly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...challenge has been forwarded from Harvard, Princeton and Columbia to Oxford and Cambridge for another cable chess match. The trophy won by the English universities last April will again be the prize. The wish of the Americans is to have six players on each side who are bona fide students of the universities. They will not necessarily be restricted to the colleges named, but must not be more than five years from the year of their matriculation. The next contest will probably be in April...
...Harvard Chess Club defeated the Boston Chess Club last Saturday night by a score of 2 1-2 games to 1 1-2. This was the first of a series of ten games which will be played on Saturday evenings during the winter...
Harvard has again entered the league of chess clubs in Boston and vicinity. The championship was won by Harvard last year. The teams represented this season are the B. A. A., the Boston Y. M. M. C. U., the Boston Press Club, Somerville Y.M.C.A., Boston Chess Club, and the Harvard Chess Club. The first match will be played next Saturday between Harvard and the Boston Y. M. C. U. with teams of twenty men each...
...last year, the condition of the team this year is again all that could be desired. The weather has been unusually warm for football, but McMaster has eliminated disabilities of the midseason, and the team which plays today will undoubtedly out condition their opponents. In every game of the season, including that with the Indians, the Harvard players have lasted better than the men opposite them and have at no time shown signs of overtraining...
...Harvard eleven is a team and not an aggregation of stars. Each man is part of the unified whole. Captain Burden, Donald, Hallowell and Burnett are playing the reliable game they did last year. A. R. Sargent, who has been playing in Boal's place, and Lawrence, both new men on the team, have overcome the tendency to lose their heads and are now very steady players. Campbell has adjusted himself to the team more easily than any of the new men. Daly plays the same game as last year but Reid has fallen off. Kendall is a brilliant line...