Word: war
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Phillipoteaux's great paintings of noted places in Europe, as well as the battle scenes in the Civil War, now on exhibition in the Old South Meeting House, have proved attractive to many admirers. The exhibitions with a descriptive lecture are given daily...
...running high kick brought out Wason, M. I. T., and P. J. Finneshan, J. A. Doherty and W. S. Phillips of the Association Gymnasium. Wason reached 8 ft. 10 in., but Phillips overcame his 2 in. handicap by a kick of 9 ft. 14 in. The tug-of-war between the Harvard and Tech freshmen was the next event. Tech had the weight. Technology was anchored by Rooney, with Greer, Lyman and Coles for a rope team. The Harvard team was composed of Tallant, (anchor,) McClellan, White and DeNormandy. Tech won the drop by about 5 in.; Harvard was very...
...only other event Friday evening which was of especial interest to college men was the tug-of-war between Columbia and Yale. Yale got the drop by an inch and held it for two minutes. Then Columbia brought the centre over the scratch and held it until the very end of the time, when Yale took an inch and a half and won by that amount...
...lost epics which supplemented the Homeric poems. We know this poem through quotations which we find in various authors, and by its influence on Greek art and literature. In this epic we find the determination of Zeus to relieve the earth of its surplus population by a destructive war given as the cause of the Trojan war. In furtherance of this plan, Thetis was given in marriage to Peelers, that their son Achilles might be the bulwark of the Greeks. This marriage was one of the episodes which particularly attracted the vase-painters, and was subjected to endless variations...
...will be an interesting event, among the entries being Phillips, who made a record of 9 feet 3 1-2 inches at the Union games last Monday; Wason of Technology, and Lee of Yale. A large number of entries have been received for the fence-vault. The tug-of-war will be an interesting event. Technology pulled Harvard at the last meeting and will undoubtedly do her best to do so again this year. Harvard will be only represented in the tug-of-war by the '90 team, as the regular varsity team has decided not to pull. The running...