Word: experts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...editorial writer in the Crimson who compares the coached debater to a chess player performing the mechanical act of moving the pieces while an expert behind his back plans the moves for him, can hardly imagine that a professor stands on the platform behind the debater, whispering in his ear, though his words would seem to imply some such belief. If the part of the chess expert were limited to improving his pupil's play before the match the comparison would be less infelicitous...
...Yale chess club has secured the services of Major Hannam, the New York chess expert, to coach the Yale players in preparation for the intercollegiate tournament. Yale's preliminary list has not yet been received, but it is semi-officially announced that W. M. Murdoch of last year's team will play, with probably Lehlbach or Arvine...
...speakers become mere mouthpieces through which the Faculty is heard and the debate developes into a contest between the Faculties of the two universities, not between the students. It is as if in an intercollegiate chess match each member of the two teams should have behind his chair an expert chess player to plan his moves for him; and he himself should do nothing but move the pieces from one square to another...
WANTED.- Expert stenographer, for about two evenings a week, literary work. Typewriting to be done at any time. State lowest terms by the hour. Near Harvard square. Address CRIMSON office...
...Friday, Justin Winsor, University Librarian appeared, as an expert, before the Venezuelan Boundary Commission at Washington, D. C., and gave cartographical information which his studies have made of great value in the Venezuelan boundary dispute...