Word: howard
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...prizes are offered in each of these three contests open to all amateurs; the entrance fee will be one dollar for each event, but this amount will be returned to those who take part in the sports for which they enter. Entries should be addressed to Harry M. Howard, Secretary Union Athletic Club, 18 Boylston Street, Boston. Blanks upon which to make entries will be furnished by the secretary of the Harvard Athletic Association at Holworthy 22, and he will supply any further information regarding the meeting that may be desired...
...Penn. Magazine has a new spelling for us, "Howard." We suppose it is some cockney pronunciation for Harvard, and that the Penn. has taken up the phonetic method...
...Freshman Class held a meeting on Tuesday last at which Mr. Putnam acted as Chairman and Mr. Howard as Secretary. The class elected the following officers...
...that the project is fairly started, there may be some men desirous of entering the society who are, as yet, not sufficiently good players to be admitted. The standard of ability is likely to be high, and practice is, of course, the best preparation; but books, like Howard Staunton's Chess-player's Hand-Book, and other works by the same author, will be found helpful. We would not express the least doubt of the value of this society, but would like to suggest as an interesting question for thought: "Can the faculties called forth and stimulated by chess-playing...
...sooner are the pencil-marks obliterated from our fingers and cuffs, and no sooner are the piles of blue books safe in the hands of the dread examiner, revealing, by their deficiencies, awful tales of nights at Carl's and the Howard, than, instead of being harassed by dire visions of a vacation passed in making up conditions, we are crushed beneath the no less awful question what to do with it. In the coming fall, the oft-repeated query, "Did you enjoy your vacation?" will be answered by a careless, "Yes," under which lurks an uneasy feeling that...