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Candidates for the freshman tug of-war team will please hand in their names at once to Amory, Crehore or Hutchinson...
...tug-of-war team has added one more victory to its long series of conquests. The college should feel great pride in the effectiveness of this athletic organization, especially when all other sports are in the condition of inferiority that they are at present. For two years past the Mott Haven cup has been saved to Harvard at the last moment by the energies of our tug-of-war team. This year's victory is presaged by the result in the Seventh Regiment armory last Saturday. Considering our ascendancy in this respect, it seems that the athletic association might...
Roland W. Boyden, L. S., pulled on the tug-of-war last Saturday, instead of Chase, as reported, and he proved a very strong addition to the team. Experts who saw the games say that the Columbia anchor was subjected to the most terrific strain that has ever been their lot to witness. In addition to the medals, our team was presented with a handsome, silver fringed, silk banner, which will soon be placed in the trophy room. The team was treated with the greatest courtesy while in New York, and wish to acknowledge especially the courtesy of Mr. Schuyler...
...shot at 8, and thereafter, until toward midnight, the sound of the pistol scared the air with admirable frequency and persistence. The games were all well conducted, and some of the events were exciting, notably the bicycle races and the mile walk, but the greatest interest centred on the tug-of war. In this, three colleges were represented - Harvard, Columbia and the City of New York. Yale had been hoped for, but did not appear. The two local institutions tugged first...
...Harvard team strolled on to the floor, ready to show what it could do. Foremost among the tuggers was J. H. B. Easton, the "biggest anchor any team ever had," as an enthusiastic soldier remarked who was trying to place $10 against $5 that Harvard would win. He has tugged seven times in that hopeful capacity, and only once has Harvard had to yield the victory. The other members of the team do not compare well with Easton in size of body, but they are scholarly, toughened young men, and each one good in his place, They were...