Word: yorks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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From the ten men who tried for the chess team to represent Harvard at the intercollegiate chess tournament in New York during the Christmas holidays, E. R. Perry '03 and W. Catchings '01 have been chosen as regular players, with F. E. Thayer '01, and C. T. Rice '01 as substitutes...
...Lecture. Explorations and Adventures on the Euphrates. A Personal Narrative. (Illustrated.) John P. Peters, Ph.D., of New York. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
Delegates from Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Union College, New York University and Haverford met in the Columbia Gymnasium on Wednesday and formed an intercollegiate gymnastic association. Harvard was not represented, but will join the association and will send a team to the meet which will probably be held next March at the Columbia Gymnasium. Temporary officers were elected and a committee was appointed to draw up a constitution and by-laws. The competition will be on parallel and horizontal bars, on swinging rings and horses and in tumbling and club swinging...
...money for the erection of the new University boat-house has been completed by the Harvard Club of New York. The amount asked for two years ago was $25,000, but the increased cost of building materials during the past six months has brought the required amount up to $27,500. The additional $2,500 is now offered by the New York graduates in addition to the previous amount. With the continuance of good weather, the building will be roofed over in a week and there will be no doubt of its completion by February 1 as originally intended...
Henry Holt and Company, of New York, have recently published a translation by Professor S. M. Macvane, of Charles Seignobos's "Political History of Europe since 1814." In his preface, Professor Macvane states that the object of the translation is to insure the book wider appreciation than could be gained in the original French. It is not merely a translation, for several passages have been altered to remedy imperfections, especially in the chapters on England, which are somewhat inadequate. A full index has been added and several English books inserted in the bibliographies...