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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON :-I wish, through your columns to call the attention of all Freshmen to the recent organization of the "Chess Club of '88," to which only members of that class will be eligible. How much such a club is needed, must be evident to everyone; not only will it provide an opportunity to its members to pass away a few pleasant hours in playing a game which, more than any other, combines pleasure with instruction, but it will also agreeably enlarge the acquaintance-the intimate acquaintance-of every member, with those who are to be his companions...
...Every member must have made a record in some one event equal to one of those given below...
...late years its editors and contributors have been drawn from undergraduates exclusively. On these the burden of editing such a paper has fallen so heavily, that there has repeatedly been danger of its discontinuance. The editors have asked, not only for financial support, but also for contributions from any member of the University. This year, we understand, the greater part of the prose writing falls upon a single man. As he graduates next spring, there is an absolute necessity that there should be new men ready to continue the work. Unless some offer themselves in the course of the year...
...points in their play, try to recover our former advantage in the science of the game. Every old player who undertakes to try for a position should resolve to give both time and thought to improving his former play. Every new man should resolve to displace an old member by making himself the better athlete, or by learning to play a more intelligent game...
...peculiar faculty which the Yale freshmen have shown in inventing excuses to put off the foot ball game with Harvard is well exhibited in the following circumstances. The Friday before the game a member of the freshman eleven was in Springfield where he expected to join the team as it passed through the city on its way to New Haven. Finding none of the men in the train, he telegraphed to the Yale freshman captain to know if the game was to be played, and received the following telegram. "No game to-morrow, Harvard Faculty object." In view...