Word: years
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of entries for the chess tournament is at present very small, only five men having signed the book. Last year and the year before very successful tournaments were held and a precedent was set for an annual tournament. As one of the objects of the tournament is to develop latent talent, all who play the game are invited to enter without fear of being beaten. The tournament is open to all members of the university. The book will be left at Bartlett's until Friday night. Rules for play will be announced later...
...Ball, a first year law student last year, is studying law at the University of Michigan...
...first Vesper service of the year will be held this afternoon in Appleton Chapel. These services have steadily grown in popularity since their inauguration, and it is because they fill a distinct place in the life of the university. The services will always appeal strongly to the students for many reasons. They come at a very convenient hour, at the close of the day's work, and do not interfere in any way with the regular duties of the day. They are conducted by men whose very names are sufficient assurance that the services will always be interesting and practical...
...report that Mr. W. C. Kitchin, author of "The Fall of the Christians," which will appear as a serlal in the New York Ledger during the coming year, is a professor in Harvard was not authorized by Mr. Kitchin, but grew out of a misunderstanding. Mr. Kitchin, formerly professor of English in the Tokyo Anglo-Japanese college, is now a graduate student in Harvard. The editors of the Ledger have been notified and will correct the statement they made that Mr. Kitchen was an instructor here...
...next annual convention of the Modern Language association will be held at Harvard during the Christmas holidays of this year. Announcements of papers that will be presened have reached the secretary of the convention from Professors Hunt (Princeton), Gummere (Haverford), Wright (Middlebury), Primer (Providence), Tolman (Ripon), Gerber (Earlham), Schmidt-Wartenberg (University of Deseret), Kent (University of Tennessee), Grandgent (Boston), Matzke (Bowdoin), Marcou (University of Michigan), Dodge (Columbia). Precise dates and definite place of the meeting will be given in the programme which will be issued shortly before the convention...