Word: war
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Amherst, 9 ft. 7 in.; 120-yards hurdle Ludington of Amherst, no time; putting the shot-Chandler of Dartmouth, 33 ft. 1 in; running broad jump-Warriner of Amherst, 20 ft. 2 1-4 in.; 220yards dash-Allen of W. P. I., 23 3-4s.; tug-of-war-Dartmouth beat Williams in the final pull off by four inches...
...war teams from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Swarthmore, Lafayette and College of the City of New York...
...strength tests, the members of the 'varsity tug-of-war team have pulled the following amounts: F. G. Balch, anchor, 1760 lbs. (with belt on); P. Chase, 946 lbs.; C. H. Baldwin, 836 lbs.; E. A. Pease, 946 lbs., making a total of 4,448 lbs. for the team. In computing the amounts, a kilogram was taken as 2 1-5 pounds. Amory, '90, and Munro, '89, will go to New York as substitutes...
...EZRA RIPLEY THAYER."Harvard in the Civil War." -James Walker...
...Frederic Crowninshield, of New York, has just completed two stained glass windows to be placed in Memorial Hall by the class of 1863, in memory of their classmates who died during the war. The subject is from the sixth book of the Iliad and represents the parting of Hector from Andromache and his son Astyanax. The windows are five feet wide and fifteen feet high, and are of colored glass, no paint being used except in the flesh tones. The artist has been restricted in his use of the darker shades by the necessity of admitting as much light...