Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...intercollegiate chess tournament, held annually during the Christmas recess, will be played this year in New York, as usual, at the Columbia Grammar School, on 51st street, near Madison avenue. Play will begin on Christmas Day. No admission will be charged. Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton will be represented respectively as follows...
...Griswold, Princeton' 99, president of the Intercollegiate Golf Association, which consists of Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia, has called a meeting for Thursday evening next in New York. Among the changes to be discussed are the abolishing of the present system of scoring, and the transfer of the time of the championship tournament from the fall of the year to the spring. The application of the University of Pennsylvania for admission will also be acted upon. Harvard will be represented by G. C. Clark...
...member of the Fencing team which won the championship of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association last year has returned to College. Since the beginning of the association in 1894, Harvard has won the championship five times out of six; and now holds the perpetual challenge trophy offered by the New York Racquet and Tennis Club for the intercollegiate championship...
...past three years Harvard has sent teams to compete for the prize offered by the New York Fencers' Club for the junior team championship of the Amateur Fencers' League of America. Men who have won any prize offered by the League are ineligible to compete for this championship, which Harvard has won twice. Last year M. D. Diaz '98 won the championship of America in sword duelling, and M. Green 3L. won the New England championship in foils...
Soon after the victory of the University nine over Yale in the final game of the series in New York on July 1, R. W. Emmons '95 and Dr. W. A. Brooks '87 started a subscription among the graduates in order to reward the members of the team. Enough money was raised to buy tall pewter steins for each man who played in any one of the games in the series and they are now being distributed. The dates and results of the games and the name of the player are inscribed on each...