Word: war
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard will make a proposition to abolish the tug-of-war from the list of Mott Haven events, and it is said that Yale is favorable to this idea...
...Mellen '92, L., stroke of last year's 'varsity at the time of its disbandment, has been appointed to coach. Mellen has had experience in rowing at Oxford and is fully capable of occupying the position of Columbia's coach. Captain Miller has also got the tug-of-war team at work, and is hopeful of a repetition of the victories of the last two years. As Miller, anchor, and Douglas, No. 1, will both pull this year, there are only two positions to be filled...
Professor A. B. Hart will lecture before the History and Political Science Association of Cornell on February 3. His subject will be "Why the South was Defeated in the Late War...
Professor J. B. Thayer has a letter on the Indian war in the Nation...
Yale's college physician has advised the discontinuance of the tug-of-war...