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...history and its various changes during the centuries of its existence are matters of much interest to all chess-players; while even more than "seven cities" have claimed the honor of its invention. The source of chess is, however, generally traced back to the old Hindu game, Chaturanga...
...recall without a glow of affectionate admiration the manly endurance and patience, never in one thoughtless moment laid aside, with which he bore the pain of a long and distressing illness. His tastes and habits were those of a scholar, but he had a singular loyalty for and unselfish interest in all that concerned the College and his fellow-students. On the last day of his college life, in May, 1872 (the day which ended for him a long struggle between love of his work and associations here, on the one hand, and constantly increasing suffering on the other...
...formation of a Chess Club, and the prompt calling of a meeting to start such a society, give us reason to believe that there exists at Harvard a number of men skilled in chess, and willing to give part of their time to the study of it. The interest shown at the meeting called yesterday afternoon to consider the question is also encouraging. A committee, consisting of Mr. Stimson, '76, Mr. Chase, '76, and Mr. Lowell, '76, was appointed to draw up a Constitution, to be reported early next week...
...other parts of the December number are not without interest to undergraduates. Mr. Robert Grant, the class poet of '73, contributes a poem called "Hymen in Washington," which is very good, and is evidently more carefully written and more free than his poems of the same nature which used to appear in the Advocate. Mr. Hale also prints this month the address which he delivered in the summer to the graduating classes of Vassar and Cornell. It is called a "Life of Letters," and is well worth reading...
...exchanges having become too numerous, we have decided to cease exchanging with those journals which, either from remoteness of location or from want of literary merit, have seemed to us void of interest. We beg leave to inform the journals mentioned below, that our increasing collegiate duties prevent our giving that time to the perusal of their columns which they doubtless merit: College Courier, College Journal, Central Collegian, Indiana Student, Asbury Review, Lehigh Journal, Qui Vive, University Reporter, University Missourian, Geyser, University Press, Alumni Journal, Annalist, Southern Collegian...