Word: manned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Several attempts at fables cover the first few pages of this issue. Only two deserve notice. "The Wise Man," by R. P. Utter, is good, but one wishes its tone were otherwise. The dialogue is well done and the topic decidedly modern. The best of the other attempts is "The Mongol and the Chinaman," by Albert Dwight Sheffield. After reading all these essays, however, one sees a reason for the quotation which heads the collection: "For the term fable is not very easy to define rigorously." Two efforts at versifying, the first "To a Guinevere" having no excuse for being...
...fifty cents. The tournament will begin next week and last probably three or four weeks according as the number, of entries ranges high or low. There will be but a single round, each player playing with every other at the appropriate odds. It is expected that no man needs play more than three games during a week. The handicapping will be arranged by the executive committee of the Harvard Chess Club, in close accordance with the results of private matches and previous tournaments. There will be five classes as follows...
Another writer has claimed that one can get a better meal at Foxcroft for 15 or 20 cents than is is served at Memorial. The lunch served today at Memorial costs, by the Foxcroft bill of fare, exactly 40 cents; the Memorial man being limited by his appetite alone, the Foxcroft man by the size of the orders placed before him. The new directors, I believe, should seek to find some solution to the overcrowding, rather than to place the whole trouble on the shoulders of the steward...
...were Professor A. B. Hart '80, who spoke for the University; Edmund Wetmore '60, who replied for the Board of Overseers; Capt A. T. Mahan, who made a plea for the Navy; and the Rev. Joseph Twitchell, who spoke for Yale. Sigourney Butler '77, in speaking on the "College Man In Politics," paid a tribute to the late William E. Russell...
...Harvard, Cornell and Yale will meet in a four mile 'varsity race to be rowed on June 24 or 25. It was also agreed to hold the Harvard-Cornell-Yale freshman race on June 23. The regatta committee, which will govern these contests, will probably be composed of one man from each university. The referee will be selected later...