Word: war
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...bill is needed to develop a Merchant Marine available for war and transport purposes: Cong. Rec., Dingley's speech, 1153; Kerr's speech, p. 3650; Sanford's speech, 3653; Report on Merchant Marine...
...captain of the Mott Haven team has given a call in another column for candidates for the tug-of-war team. Laying aside the consideration that Harvard is opposed to the tug-of-war as a college sport, we still have the plain fact before us that, by refusing to contest in it this year, we should deliberately lessen our chances for the Mott Haven Cup. We cannot afford to lessen these chances for victory; and for that reason the captain is making every effort to put a winning tug-of-war team in the field. The duty...
...meeting of the executive committee of the H. A. A., held yesterday afternoon, it was decided not to have any interclass tug-of-war matches this year at the winter meetings. But, inasmuch as a team will have to be sent to the Mott Haven games in the spring, it was decided to organize a 'varsity team and to arrange a match with some other team to come off at the second winter meeting...
There will also be a special tug-of-war contest between the Northwestern University and Institute teams. Membeers of the B. A. A. and H. A. A. are invited to attend...
With reference to the way that the larger colleges were overruled in the tug-of-war question it is interesting to note those colleges that won points at the Mott Haven games last spring. Harvard won 32 points, Yale 29 1-2, Amherst 12, and Swarthmore, Lehigh and New York 1 each...