Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...call attention through your columns to the negligence of the H. A. A. in not giving medals for the tug-of-war teams in the last winter meeting. At the non-appearance of the Yale team three members of the '93 team and Mr. Wright, '92, volunteered to pull against the 'varsity to make an event...
...race with Harvard. Both Rogers and Bolton, the two Yale coachers, admit that the crew is in pretty good trim, "although the fact that Harvard is saying nothing leads them to believe that their (Harvard's) crew is a first-class one." The Yale crew will take their last pull on the harbor on Friday, and on Saturday morning they go to New London and will be quartered at the Latham Brown villa, a large house situated on a commanding bluff at Gale's Ferry, a few yards from the Columbia quarters. The old Yale launch has been...
...faults of the men are as follows: Bow goes back too far. 2 swings round too far at full reach, and doesn't pull his oar through. 3 doesn't finish his stroke, gets too little body swing, and starts his slide too slowly. 4 feathers too flatly, and doesn't pull his stroke through to the body. 5 needs to wake up, and yeaks his hands in at finish. 6 is awkward, feathers poorly, is unsteady on recover, and doesn't swing out quick enough. 7 doesn't follow stroke quick enough, and doesn't pull his oar through...
...Columbia pulled Pennsylvania 8 in. in the first trial of the tug-of-war; Yale beat Swarthmore by 1 1-2 in., with Princeton bye. In the second trial Columbia beat Princeton by 3 1-2 in., and Columbia beat Yale by 7 in. In the pull for second place Yale defeated Princeton by 5 1-2 inches, and Princeton forfeited third place to Swarthmore...
...Brackett, '91, followed for the negative. The McKinley bill is not just. Those who have had the strongest "pull" have benefitted themselves to the detriment of those who were less skilled in the use of the political machine. The bill discriminates between rich and poor. For example the cheap articles used by the poorer classes pay a heavy duty. Less than one-fifth of the inhabitants of the United States are benefitted by protection...