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...players in college graduate next spring. E. E. Southard '97 will coach the players and will be assisted by other members of former Harvard teams. A number of matches will be played with the different Boston chess clubs, and also some matches may be arranged with the clubs of near-by colleges. The fall tournament will begin in about two weeks, and every man who knows how to play chess at all, is urged to enter...
...object of this reception hall is to provide a warm and comfortable place where ladies may rest, before or during the games on the field. With this in view there is a large, open fire-place, built of rough brick, in a recess near one corner of the room. In it there will always be a wood fire on afternoons when there are games. Opening from the same side of the hall are toilet rooms, equipped with all facilities for the use of visitors. The upper story of the lodge contains dwelling rooms only, and will not be open...
...first of these is the sorting out of the books on China which are already in the Library and their proper classification. This was done in view of numerous additions which are likely to be made to this department in the near future...
...lectures were given in Spanish and many illustrated by stereopticon views. The women were also given an elementary course in kindergarten training, and the men exercises in Sloyd at the Cambridge Manual Training School. The afternoons were taken up in excursions to places of historical, geographical or industrial interest near Cambridge and all were expected to attend these excursions at least every other...
...Lawrence Scientific School surveying camp was situated this last summer on Martha's Vineyard at the Makonikey Inn, an unused hotel near Vineyard Haven. Up to this year the expedition has usually been taken to Professor Shaler's estate in Chilmark, but the rapid increase year by year in the numbers of those who were taken has made larger quarters necessary. Makonikey is a very convenient starting place for surveying practice as the land rises near the shore high enough to give good locations for triangulation stations. With the sea so close by, the mean sea level is easily obtained...