Word: princeton
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...intercollegiate chess tournament, held annually during the Christmas recess, will be played this year in New York, as usual, at the Columbia Grammar School, on 51st street, near Madison avenue. Play will begin on Christmas Day. No admission will be charged. Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton will be represented respectively as follows...
...Princeton J. C. Henley '02, and J. B. Hunt '02. Substitute, C. W. Scott...
Columbia has lost Meyer, who was probably next to Southard in playing ability. Falk is very conservative, and seldom makes more than a draw against a good player. Sewall is hardly as good as Boehm, who is unable to play on account of illness. Both the Yale and the Princeton teams are better than they were last year. Weston and Ely, last year's players, were beaten in the fall tournament by Henley and Hunt, the present team...
...team from the Freshman Debating Club defeated the Worcester Classical High School at Worcester last night. The question was the same as that of the Princeton debate. The Harvard speakers, C. H. Scovell, A. Black and J. D. Williams, excelled in form and analysis of the subject and their rebuttal was particularly good. For Worcester, J. T. Madden, W. E. Prince, and F. J. Rooney based their arguments on England's claim to suzerainty and her right to demand a reduction of the franchise requirements. The Freshmen showed that Great Britain had neither special rights under the conventions nor general...
...Griswold, Princeton' 99, president of the Intercollegiate Golf Association, which consists of Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia, has called a meeting for Thursday evening next in New York. Among the changes to be discussed are the abolishing of the present system of scoring, and the transfer of the time of the championship tournament from the fall of the year to the spring. The application of the University of Pennsylvania for admission will also be acted upon. Harvard will be represented by G. C. Clark...