Word: opening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...book for entries in the chess tournament will be removed from Bartlett's today at 5.30 p. m. The tournament is open to all members of the university, and it is hoped that the present small number of entries will be increased today...
...Open to all students of the university...
...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...
...that men on Jarvis last Saturday paraded up and down in front of the benches, their hands full of money and invited or rather taunted men to bet. Betting is an evil inseparable from college as much as professional athletics, but that it should be carried on in so open and disgraceful a manner, shows clearly that professionalism is fast tainting the whole structure of intercollegiate contests...
...once to state the reasons for which the meeting had been called, using as a text a letter from Mr. Francis M. Weld '60. The scope of the letter was that Harvard should take some stand against professionalism, and after the letter had been read the subject was thrown open for discussion. Honore '88, moved that Harvard offer to Yale to form a dual league in football. The motion upon being seconded, was fully discussed by speakers from the floor, and Mr. Hooper '80, read two letters, one from Mr. Robert Bacon, of Boston, the other from Mr. Wetmore...