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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three representatives of the Harvard Alumni Association will be Mr. E. M. Grossman '96 of Saint Louis, Mr. L. P. Marvin '98 of New York, and Mr. J. W. D. Seymour '17 of Cambridge, while the representatives of the Associated Harvard Clubs will be Mr. W. C. Boyden '86 of Chicago, Mr. G. A. Morison '00 of Milwaukee, and Mr. E. H. Wells '97 of New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO PROMOTE UNIVERSITY-ALUMNI RELATIONSHIPS | 10/20/1922 | See Source »

Included in the collection is also a very interesting copy of the first edition (1564) of Ruy Lopez' "Libro del Juego del Axedrez" which was given the College by Buckingham Smith, 1836, who evidently found it at Saint Augustine, Florida, when he was there in the 1840's. There is also a copy of a treatise in Latin written by an Italian lawyer, Tomasso Azzio, and printed in 1583 and a rather amusing work published in Boston in 1805. This last work, the "Elements of Chess", was the second book on the subject published in America and reflects the revolutionary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTION OF ANCIENT BOOKS ON CHESS GIVEN TO WIDENER | 10/14/1922 | See Source »

...first meeting of the Student Council for this year the following officers were elected: John Gardiner Flint '23, of Boston, President; Vinton Chapin '23, of Boston, Vice-President; Sheridan Logan '23, of Saint Joseph, Mo., Secretary; Herbert Lee Pratt Jr. '23, of Glen Cove, L.I., N. Y., Treasurer; and Clifton Powell Fordyce '23, of Hot Springs, Ark.; senior representative on the Executive Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELECT OFFICERS OF 1923 STUDENT COUNCIL | 10/11/1922 | See Source »

...following were appointed to the Student Advisory Committee: Sheridan Logan '23, of Saint Joseph, Mo., chairman; Robert Emery Anderson Jr. '23, of Newton Centre, secretary; Marion Wesley Self '23, of Abilene, Texas; Henry Jacob Friendly '23, of Elmira, N. Y.; Cornelius Hawkins Hawes '23, of Fall River; Russell Robb Jr. '23, of Concord; Frederick August Otto Schwarz '24, of Greenwich, Conn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELECT OFFICERS OF 1923 STUDENT COUNCIL | 10/11/1922 | See Source »

...said handle the forefinger of a saint, but glass cases stand between us and the ancient treasures like the impassable ether between Heaven and Hell. There they are, the immortals; Chaucer: the magistrates arresting John Bunyan (see, they present the warrant to him now): Cromwell somewhere behind his death mask (we feel secretly glad that he is, indeed, dead); and many others vaguely peeping through the pages of books. Did you know that the fastidious John Dryden was once a boy, went to a grammar school, actually scrawled his name in a Greek copy book with large letters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FOREFINGER OF A SAINT | 9/30/1922 | See Source »

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