Word: tugged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pelleas and Melisande. There are few more distressing duties than to seize by the beard a venerable bit of literature that has acquired the privileged sanctity of a classic. You tug the white whiskers from their moorings- and there stands revealed a fictional figure worn with age but no longer dignified. Such was the lot of Pelleas and Melisande, a fantasy of Maeterlinck's which continued absence from the stage has afforded it an illegitimate repute...
...that a very heavy current can be put through an electric motor for a short time and tremendous power secured, but if this current is continued for any length of time, the motor is burned up. Steam locomotives, on the other hand, can exert maximum power indefinitely." If the tug-of-war had been of one day's duration, added President Coffin, "several electric locomo-tives" would have been required to stop the steam locomotive...
About this time, in colleges where certain traditions linger, the Freshmen are being received in to fellowship of classes by some such welcoming process as a pole-rush, tug-of-war, or cap-burning. Though lacking those familiar methods, Harvard has a substitute that serves in a somewhat similar capacity. The election today is in its way a formal recognition of the coming-of-age of the Freshman class. It is a reception at which the Class, Personified by its voting, presents itself to the rest of the college, and discloses it tastes and its character. If it goes...
...faculty was held in which the latter were defeated 24-16. The 75-yard dash was won by Arthur Stock 1 G. B. with A. B. Johnson 1 G. B. and William Shepherd 2 G. B. finishing second and third. The First and Second Year men competed in a tug-of-war after which the faculty contested the First Year...
...will leave Rowe's Wharf on a private boat for Nantasket where one of the hotels will be reserved. As the affair is to be strictly informal the men will all go in old clothes and will spend the day at various sports. Among the contests arranged are a tug of war between faculty and students and an indoor baseball game between First and Second Year men, the winning team to play the faculty. A hot dinner will be served by a Boston caterer...