Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...official acceptance of the challenge sent by Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia for a chess match by cable has been received from Oxford University. The Englishmen consider six players on a side sufficient, and suggest April 20 as the date of the match. They further suggest that no player shall be eligible for more than five years from the date of his matriculation as a mean between the qualifications for English and American intercollegiate chess matches. This tournament is to be held under the patronage of the Manhattan Chess Club...
...YORK, March 27.- At a meeting of chess repsentatives from Yale, Princeton and Columbia at the Manhattan Club the following team was chosen to play against the English universities: E. E. Southard 1M of Harvard, W. M. Murdock of Yale, A. S. Meyer of Columbia, E. B. Seymour of Princeton. The match is to kake place in the rooms of the Manhattan Club on April 20. Harvard, whose representative, Southard, could not be present, telegraphed that she would concur in all arrangements...
...first competition to choose speakers for the Harvard-Princeton debate, which was held in the Fogg Art Museum last night,, was not of a very encouraging sort. Only twenty-seven men spoke and few of them did anything specially commendable...
Yale won the debate with Princeton last night at Princeton. Princeton won the debate last year...
...subject for debate is the one already chosen for the Princeton debate: "Resolved, That the present restrictions on immigration into the United States are insufficient...