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More interest is being evinced in chess this year than has been shown for some years. Forty-one men have entered the tournament now being held by the Chess Club to select men for the various matches of the year. The four men doing, the best work in this tournament will play the men who composed the 1901 University chess team to decide the personnel of the team which will meet Yale, Columbia, and Princeton in the intercollegiate tournament which will take place during the Christmas recess. The ten best men in the tournament will make up the team which...
...club will select a team of six men to play in the Metropolitan Chess League, composed of teams from the Boston Chess Club, Young Men's Christian Union, Dorchester Club, Boston Athletic Association, and the Boston Press Club. The league will hold a round robin tournament between the different teams, and the championship will be awarded the club winning the greatest number of victories...
...whom are two captains. These captains then divide the remaining members into two camps which oppose each other in weekly or fortnightly debates. The whole conduct of each camp is in the hands of the captain; it is his duty to choose questions for debate; assign points to speakers; select judges--usually members of the University Debating Club--and open and close the debate for his side...
...Monday, December 15, the Sophomore-Freshman debate on Wednesday, December 17, and the final debate between the winners on Friday, January 30. The question will in each case be submitted by the upper class, the subjects for the first two debates being announced on November 15. The trials to select the teams for the four classes will be held on Wednesday, November 19, and Saturday, November 22. New teams will be chosen by the winning classes for the championship debate, to the best individual speaker in which the Pasteur Medal will be awarded. The University Debating Club will give cups...
...first intercollegiate debate for the current academic year will be held with Princeton at Princeton, probably on December 12. Princeton will choose the question and Harvard the side. The trials to select the Harvard team will be held during the first two weeks in November. The Yale debate will be held in Cambridge in the latter part of March...