Word: moves
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Davy, of Cambridge, has got his eight-oared shell well under way. It is a very good looking craft; the builder has avoided as much as possible the faults of being at taught to any one idea. Mr. Davy is trying to make a boat which will move steadily through the water; he insists that it must be neither too high nor too low in the water, that it must not be too flat-bottomed nor too full forward; he tries to make her stiff and fairly light. The Harvard crew is to try her when she is ready...
...given. It hurts athletics in general, it hurts each delinquent organization in particular to have victorious teams go unrewarded. If men do not receive the trophies promised them they are bound to be dissatisfied and to refuse their hearty cooperation in athletics in the future. It will be a move in self-defence, therefore, for the associations to fulfil their obligations...
...third and final game for the chess championship of the college was played yesterday afternoon between S. W. Sturgis '90, and F. W. Nicolls '92, at the rooms of the latter. The first move fell by lot to Sturgis, who opened with the "Scotch Gambit" in which the first player sacrifices a pawn for the sake of a strong attack. By the eighth move Sturgis had recovered the pawn, but their positions were nearly equal. For the next few moves each party slowly brought out his pieces, and Nicolls developed a slight attack, which was strengthened by a mistake...