Word: matters
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...been unofficially announced that Oxford will also accept the challenge, although as yet no action has been taken on the matter by the Oxford managers. Cambridge will be represented by three players on the international team, but the men will not be chosen until a preliminary test tournament has been held. The dates, April 14 and 15, which were selected by the American colleges, have proved satisfactory, and applications have already been made to the City of London Chess Club, for the use of its rooms during the two days of the contest...
...foul. The Players have not devised or enjoyed the stupid methods of training which impair the physical condition of most of them before the important games take place." President Eliot concludes his discussion of football with these words: "On the question, whether or not football victories do, as a matter of fact, contribute to the growth and regulation of a college or university, there are evidently two opinions. But if a college or university is primarily a place for training men for honorable, generous, and efficient service to the community at large, there ought not to be more than...
...present state of the negotiations between Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology does not come within the period under review, President Eliot throws no light on it in his report. His only direct reference to the matter is his insertion of the text of the communication submitted to the Harvard Corporation last spring by the Institute Corporation on the question of an alliance between the two institutions for the better performance of their respective trusts. In his reference to what Harvard is now doing in applied science, however, President Eliot makes it apparent that Harvard has no intention...
...clubs which wish to have any statement or list of members printed in the Register for 1904-1905 may do so by sending any matter to G. A. Moore, Box 23, Cambridge, before Thursday noon, January...
...order, therefore, to oblige those who are inconvenienced and in order not to interfere with the track work more than is absolutely necessary, the basketball manager, after talking the matter over with me, decided wherever possible to change the Thursday afternoon games to the evening. R. E. SARD...