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...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...
Boylston Prizes, June 19, 1873.ARTHUR HOWARD PICKERING, Frederick Ozni Vaille, Juniors, 1st Prizes, and William Burry, Junior, 2d Prize...