Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...team of picked athletes to America in September next to meet a picked team from Yale and Harvard. A joint committee of both the English colleges which has been considering the University of Pennsylvania's challenge, today cabled a challenge to Yale and Harvard, and later mailed a formal challenge...
...today cabled them a challenge and we have also mailed to them a formal challenge. We, that is, Oxford and Cambridge, would be glad to take a team to America next September, to compete with Yale and Harvard, and the decision whether this match shall take place, rests with them alone. We understand that Yale and Harvard both would have preferred to have this meeting next July, but unfortunately we cannot arrange for this. Therefore it only remains to be seen whether Yale and Harvard, in their sportsmanlike desire to bring about a contest of this character, will be willing...
...success. In spite of the precautions which former committees have taken in keeping track of the tickets that are given out, a great deal of trouble has been caused, just because some men have felt that the conditions which they had agreed upon when buying tickets, were merely formal and not binding upon them. Such a spirit as this is unworthy of gentlemen...
...CLARK, Capt.CHESS CLUB. - The Harvard Chess Club will hold its last formal meeting in the spring term at the rooms of the Boston Chess Club, 18 Boylston Place, Boston, on Friday evening, May 24. A team match will be played, in which it is highly desirable that all the following men shall take part...
CHESS CLUB. - The Harvard Chess Club will hold its last formal meeting in the spring term at the rooms of the Boston Chess Club, 18 Boylston Place, Boston, on Friday evening, May 24. A team match will be played, in which it is highly desirable that all the following men shall take part...