Word: seventeenth
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Columbia retained the title in the Columbia-Harvard-Princeton-Yale Chess League, winning for the seventeenth time in 30 years, by defeating Yale 3 to 1 in the final round, after defeating Princeton 3 1-2 to 1-2, and Harvard 4 to 0. Princeton defeated Harvard 3 to 1 in the final round, easily finishing second with a three-point margin over both Harvard and Yale...
...School of Architecture announced today the opening of a special exhibition of drawings, prints, and water colours, of architectural subjects. In date, the artists represented range from the seventeenth century to the present day. There are examples by Canaletto, Guardi, Piranesi, Constable, Ruskin, Turner, Prout, J. L. Smith, K. J. Conant, and H. A. Webster. The works are all selected from the mass of valuable material owned by the Fogg Museum which cannot be exhibited there on account of the cramped facilities and lack of exhibition space. No attempt has been made, in arranging the exhibition, to cover the periods...
Dating from the seventeenth century are prints by Jacques Callot, whose work is notable in the history of etching in that it is among the earliest in which the practice of a second biting was used to any extent; and Claude Lornain, remarkable for his power of rendering atmospheric effects...
...match which was played under the auspices of the Harvard Golf Association yesterday at the Braeburn Country Club, J. W. Sweetser and R. T. Jonse '23 defeated F. D. Ouimet and Jesse Guilford one up by taking the last hole. The score was even at the end of the seventeenth. On the eighteenth hole Jones drove and then put a long iron shot on the edge of the green. A 54-foot putt brought him to within nine inches of the hole and he was out for a four. Sweetser, Guilford, and Ouimet all turned in fives...
...This is the work which Caxton translated and printed as "The Game and Playe of the Chesse"--the second book printed in England. There is also a learned work in Latin and Hebrew by Thomas Hyde, professor of Oriental languages at Oxford at the close of the seventeenth century. The Widener copy of this "Shahiludium" is of the extremely rare edition of 1689. No copy of this edition appears in the standard bibliography on the subject or in any of the great collections of chess books...