Word: vacationers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In the annual quadrangular competition for the Balden-Stephens Chess Trophy held during the Christmas vacation, the Crimson chessmen won the trophy when they succeeded in defeating Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth by comfortable margins.
Coach Wes Fesler's Varsity five has not been idle during the last part of the Christmas vacation although it has not had any regular games. The Crimson cagers reported for practice Monday, and since then they have engaged in two sessions daily.
The Feslermen were victorious in three out of the five pre-vacation tilts, but they have yet to face competition as stern as they will meet later this season with the possible exception of Brown.
"The test of a man is the fight he makes," is the motto that hangs in the San Francisco office of shy, chunky Banker Ashby Oliver Stewart. This is the sort of spirit to endear him to famed Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini, currently facing the biggest fight of his career...
That night there is snow, and its soft silent falling does much to cool his feverish vacation marathon. He finds that the mad dashings, the enforced gaieties which have so far characterized his holiday activities have now a thin crust of ice tinging their edges. In a so-white, so...