Word: moves
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...chess game with Yale which Harvard opened with the Scotch Gambit has been finished and the result is a victory for Harvard. The attack was well defended by Yale until the sixteenth move when Harvard forced an exchange of queens. Further exchanges left Harvard's Pawns in so strong a position that on the thirty-fourth move Yale was forced to resign. The Ruy Lopez game is still about even. The moves made since those published in the CRIMSON of May 22 are as follows...
...Yale-Princeton chess match both games have been won by Princeton. The Evans gambit was won at the thirty-fourth move, and Ruy Lopez game at the fortieth move...
...beginning of the summer vacation next year, trains to be started immediately at the close of the term. The subject can very easily be brought to the attention of excursion companies, and a skilful handling of their proposals must result in offers of very low rates. If some move is taken thus early those details which generally make the near approach of an event the signal for trouble and confusion, may be settled gradually and a comparatively easy path opened for those in charge...
...having members of both the great political parties in his councils. The result was not satisfactory. Then he called about him the members of the Whig party because, whatever their short-comings, they were at least united on the point of sustaining him in the wars against France. This move proved entirely successful. However it was many years before the full scope and meaning of the system of government by parties were understood in England. Sir Robert Walpole when he became prime minister, gave a great impetus and development to the party system. Practically it was not until the time...
...become a party machine; Von Holst, Const. Law, 91. - (b) The executive, with cabinet, was not intended to be allied to Congress, but to be a a check or balance; Thayer, 446; Hare, I, 180. - (c) It is fundamental in a democracy that the people should move the government, not that any body of men should control legislation; Snow...