Word: war
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Association officers will be held as usual the last Saturday of this month, February 27, at New York. Harvard representatives will raise the question as to the advisability of substituting the safety bicycle for the ordinary, of adding a three mile running race, and of dropping the tug-of-war...
...speaking of the advisability of entering a tug-of-war team, Capt. Vredenburg is quoted as saying that Princeton will support Harvard and Yale in making every effort to do away with this sport, but he doubts whether they could carry their point, owing to the opposition of the smaller colleges. He also said that an effort would be made to strike the bicycle races from the list of events, and that, in spite of Harvard's antagonism, there is some chance that the scheme may prove successful. Some of the most promising candidates are given below...
...Exeter Winter meetings will be held on the 16th and 19th of March this year. There will be seventeen events and there will be no tug of war this year...
...hour's drill will be held twice a week at the New Haven City Armory. At the end of the drill season, certificates will be awarded to men who deserve them, which will entitle them to preference in obtaining commissions in the volunteer services, in the case of war...
...brought out by this controversy. A curious lack of harmony in the executive departments is visible; Secretary Blaine and and Secretary Tracy have not pulled together and the president has not undertaken to make them agree. The State department is the organ of foreign policy and the navy and war departments should be subordinate...