Word: war
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Among Harvard's most precious possessions are the poems which were written in commemoration of her sons who fell in the war, and in the New England Magazine for June is an article on "Harvard Memorial Poems" which cannot fail to interest Harvard men. Facsimiles from manuscripts prepared by the authors for this purpose are published of the poems, "Harvard's Dead" by Rev. S. F. Smith, the author of "America,"- the second canto of James Russell Lowell's Ode, recited at the Harvard commemoration, July 21, 1865-and the hymn written by Dr. Holmes for the dedication of Harvard...
...high jumpFearing, Green, Evins, Lee and Sherwin; pole vault-Green, Wheel wright and Sherwin; putting the shot-Finlay and Evins; throwing the hammer-Evins and Finlay. The bicycle men who had not tried the Berkeley Oval track have already gone to New York. There will be no tug-of-war team from Harvard...
...candidates for the university tug-of-war team have been training for some time in preparation for the intercollegiate games. With all due respect to the men who have been working hard to make up a team, we are forced to the conclusion that the amount and quality of the material are totally inadequate. The men lack experience; they have no good coach, and, take it all in all, their chances for winning a place for Harvard seem very slight. It has not yet been finally decided. we understand, whether or not to send this team to the games...
...war team...
...very evident that the college as a whole takes no interest at all in the tug-of-war. There are at least a dozen men in college who have had experience in pulling either on the class or 'varsity teams, but of these only one has been induced to come out this year. Capt. Moen has left the matter entirely in charge of Robb '93, who anchored on the freshman last year. The training consists at present of five or six pulls of two minutes each against a wagon spring, light work on the chest-weights and a short...