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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...following candidates for the Princeton athletic team went to training table last week: Cary. Rhoddy, Black, Jefferson and the tug of war team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 4/29/1890 | See Source »

...Genesis replaced polytheism by monotheism. Some things he left out, and retained only echoes of other portions. Thus, we find in Genesis a serpent which was an enemy to the Creator. In the Baby lonian form of the creation story this serpent is a dragon which wages a long war with all the gods, and is afterwards overcome by one of their number. The sacred tree plays a large part in the Assyrian sculpture and carvings, and so do the winged composite creatures answering to the Hebrew cherubim; but the account of a seduction of man by a tempter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Lyon's Lecture. | 4/25/1890 | See Source »

...blue with the same letters embroidered above the visor. The following men will go to the training table tomorrow: C. H. Sherrill, '89; D. H. Robinson, '90; H. Cheney, '92; J. P. Lloyd, '91; N. L. Deming, '90 S.; F. H. Clark, '91 S.; and the tug of-war team, consisting of C. W. Leaven worth, '91 S.; H. E. Crall, '90; T. J. Lloyd, '90, and C. Dussler, '90.- Yale News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mott Haven Team. | 4/24/1890 | See Source »

...War, (650 lbs. limit) teams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Berkeley Athletic Club Meeting. | 4/23/1890 | See Source »

Handsome cups will be given to first, second and third in each event, except in the tug of war, in which contest each member of the winning team will received a prize, and a banner will be presented to the club entering such team. In the team bicycle race a banner will be presented to the team scoring the greatest number of points, as per L. A. W. rules, and the first three men over the line will receive additional prizes. Furthermore, a handsome banner will be awarded the club scoring the greatest number of points during the entire meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Berkeley Athletic Club Meeting. | 4/23/1890 | See Source »

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