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...sale of tickets to referee's tug...
...freshman race with Columbia '87, which was postponed from Wednesday, June 25, was rowed on the following day an hour or so after the university race with Yale. Many of the spectators remained to see this race, and sixty or seventy of them, mostly '87 men, hired a large tug and witnessed the race from that. Much delay was caused by the drifting of the starting skiffs, and it was not until quarter past five that the word was given. The Columbia men were much lighter than the Harvard crew, but rowed in beautiful form. The start was even, Columbia...
...Spirit of the Times severely censures the mismanagement by which the tug-of-war teams from Yale and Columbia were allowed to pull against teams already wearied by previous pulls, while they were fresh from their...
...foremost places in college athletics. At the winter meetings of his sophomore year he won first prizes in both wrestling and rope-climbing. He also held a prominent place on the University foot-ball team in both his junior and senior years, and as a member of the tug of-war team which represented Harvard at the last inter-collegiate games in New York his great strength contributed much toward the success of that event. He was always conscientious in his college work and maintained a good standing throughout. His moral character was without blemish, and his temperance...
...Clipper says of the Lehigh tug-of-war team at the games, that their previous work gave them courage, which did not prevail against the superior ability of the better-drilled Harvards, whose anchor, cool as an iceberg, exercised intelligent control over...