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...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...
...noblest, the most important, and the most difficult"; and those who have read his Breakfast Table chats will agree with him. Yet in present times the breakfast table has been supplanted by the quick lunch system with its ready-to-serve conversation, and the coffee-houses of the seventeenth aned eighteenth centuries have given way to gatherings where "the one about the traveling salesman" or the too-familiar cry. "Here you heard this one?" are the order of the day. No more is needed in order to be a "wit" than a superficial line of questionable repartee or the ability...
...announced yesterday that the Garcelon hurdle races will this year come on April 26, and on the third, tenth, seventeenth, and twenty-fourth of May. Miniature prize hurdles will be presented by Mr. W. F. Garcelon '95, former hurdler and track coach at the University and now a member of the track advisory committee. As was the case last year there will be ten prizes in all, one to be presented to the winner in both the high and the low hurdles on each of the five days. In the first two races, the high and low hurdles will...
There is now being shown in the Print Room of the Fogg Art Museum an exhibition of French prints covering the period from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. There are examples of engraving by Duvet; etchings by Callot, Claude Lorrain, Gaspar Poussin; engraved portraits of the seventeenth century by Mellan, Nanteuil, Edelinck, Masson, Morin, etchings by Watteau, Millet, Lalanne, Corot, Lepere; and lithographs by Daumier, Delacroix, Isabey, and Gavarni...
...program will consist of selections from the earlier composers--Bach, Gluck, Handel, and Scarlatti, and two groups of songs by Miss Wyman. The first group is a collection of old English ballads, while the second group consists of "chansons populaires", old French songs of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...