Word: war
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard in favor of the change were Cornell and Amherst. Yale, Princeton and the others voted against it. In the next motion to allow safeties to race with ordinary bicycles, Harvard gained a few more supporters but not enough to carry the motion. The question of the tug-of-war, like that of the safeties, meant a change in the constitution, and required, therefore, a two-thirds vote. This meant that in order to abolish the tug-of-war the motion would have to be carried by a vote of 8 to 4. The vote...
...that the tug of war is inevitable, Harvard will see what she can do in the way of getting up a team. There may be plenty of material in the college, but there is practically no interest in the sport. Whether or not the H. A. A. will try to arouse such an interest by introducing the tug-of-war into the winter meetings remains to be seen...
...vote of the colleges on the tug-of-war question at the Intercollegiate Association meeting was significant. At Harvard, Yale and Princeton for the last two or three years there has been a growing feeling that the tug-of-war is not a true sport. For that reason an effort was made to strike it from the list of events. In general the numerous smaller colleges combined, as they always do combine against the few larger ones, and defeated the measure. This stand of the smaller colleges is inexplicable; but it simply serves to show their unwise policy...
...then moved to drop the tug-of-war from the programme. He read a letter from an old tug-of-war man, setting forth the ill effects of that form of contest. Mr. Hewitt of Columbia defended the tug-of-war, and held that it was no more dangerous than foot ball, rowing and many other sports. The discussion grew quite warm, and at its close the motion was lost...
Lieutenant Horace Carpenter of New Orleans, in his entertaining article on "Plain Living at Johnson's Island," describes the hardships, from the point of view of a Confederate prisoner, of a sojourn in the war prison in Lake Erie, near Sandusky. Only officers were confined on Johnson's Island; and according to Lieutenant Carpenter they were for months at the mercy of hunger and freezing weather...