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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...chess trophy, a silver punchbowl, was first offered in 1891, and will become the property of the university winning it for ten successive years. Harvard has already won it five times in succession. For the last three years Harvard has won ten points out of twelve. The lowest score which ever won the tournament was eight and one-half points, made by Harvard...
Neither Southard nor Arensberg, who composed last year's winning team, has come out this year. The absence of Southard makes the tournament closer and more interesting than it has been for several years. His playing was far above the average, as is shown by the fact that he won twenty-two games in succession for Harvard. Catchings, the president of the Chess Club, was substitute on the team last year and also played in the international match. Perry, who won the fall tournament, played on the Worcester Academy team last year, and has made a good showing against prominent...
Only one member of the Fencing team which won the championship of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association last year has returned to College. Since the beginning of the association in 1894, Harvard has won the championship five times out of six; and now holds the perpetual challenge trophy offered by the New York Racquet and Tennis Club for the intercollegiate championship...
...past three years Harvard has sent teams to compete for the prize offered by the New York Fencers' Club for the junior team championship of the Amateur Fencers' League of America. Men who have won any prize offered by the League are ineligible to compete for this championship, which Harvard has won twice. Last year M. D. Diaz '98 won the championship of America in sword duelling, and M. Green 3L. won the New England championship in foils...
...John Blair will present the second of his course of Modern Dramas in the Tremont Theatre tomorrow afternoon at 2.15. The play will be the Comedie-Francaise success, "Les Tenailles," by Paul Hervieu, which, as translated, is entitled "Ties." Mr. Blair is ably supported by Miss Florence Kahn, who won such distinguished praise in the first play, "Galeoto," and by four carefully selected associates. Among the patrons of this series of dramas are several Harvard graduates and professors...