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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Columbia. A motion to increase the limit of play from 15 to 20 moves an hour was voted down 9 to 6. The following were appointed members of the International Cable Match Committee, which will have charge of the contest for the Rice trophy, now in possession of Oxford and Cambridge: E. R. Perry '03, A. S. Jamison, of Yale, J. B. Hunt, of Princeton, and L. J. Wolff, of Columbia
From the contestants in this tournament a team will be picked which will play a picked team from Oxford and Cambridge some time in March for the trophy presented by I. L. Rice. The match for this international trophy last year resulted in a draw...
...long and close. From 1870 to 1889 he was a member of the Board of Overseers, and a University Preacher from 1886 to 1891. Bishop Brooks received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from no less than four colleges, from Union College in 1870, Harvard University in 1877, Oxford University in 1885, and Columbia University in 1887. He died January 23, 1893, and soon after his death Phillips Brooks House was erected in commemoration of his life and work...
...Grenfell is a graduate of King's College, Oxford, and the Royal College of Surgeons, and was for a time associated with Sir Frederick Treves, King Edward's surgeon. For 18 years he has been engaged in medical and philanthropic work in Labrador and has bettered the educational and economic situation there by establishing schools and co-operative stores. He cruises the coast of Labrador in summer in his hospital ship and in winter covers the distance from settlement to settlement by dog-teams, caring for the sick and needy fishermen who comprise most of the population of this region...
...seamen who wreck their vessels for the insurance. He is an active opponent of the fraud, oppression and drink evils which prevail in Labrader. Last year he was made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George by King Edward, and recently he has received from Oxford the first M.D. degree that this university has ever given...