Word: year
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...another year or two Yale will have a new beat house built from money which is now being raised among the graduates...
...annual intercollegiate chess match will be held this year in the rooms of the Columbia Grammar School, New York City, beginning Christmas Day and continuing throughout Christmas week. Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia will be represented. Each team will consist of two men and each member will play six games. The team with the largest percentage of games won will win the match. The silver loving cup, which has been won by Harvard teams for the last five years, will be again played for. The conditions are that the college winning it ten consecutive times will become the perpetual owner...
...abundance of veteran material is a criterion, the football eleven for next year will begin with a very good outlook. Since the connection of some of this year's players with the University will probably be changed before next season, it is too early yet to make very definite predictions as to the eligible material for next year's team. Some facts, however, are self-evident...
...current number of the Advocate is by far the best that has been issued this year. It contains fewer pieces than the typical number; but its stores, poems and editorials are all good. The leading contributions, long, carefully arranged and artistically written stories, are a happy exchange for the usual expanded daily themes. "Counterfeiting," by A. H. Gilbert '01, is an ingenuous and amusing little sketch of a somewhat conventional sort. The Hon. Jack Castleton, a shy, weak youth of the "gilded set" and the educated valet are familiar figures; but the writer puts them through their parts with skill...
...nothing commonplace in the way in which this very conventional subject is treated. The phrasing used is slightly precocious, but this--if anything--adds to the charm of the story. In style, "In the Study" is the equal of any story which has appeared in the Advocate this year. "Seven Hours," by M. Seasongood '00, is not a very clever tale. Its plot is weak, and the dialect which is sprinkled through it is hardly successful. In "The Hangers -On," by L. D. Humphrey, is seen that much over worked form of the short story,--the expanded daily theme...