Word: war
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...small rooms have been turned into three or four large ones, and bathing facilities and about one hundred lockers have been provided. The boat club will occupy one of the largest rooms, in which rowing machines and lockers have been placed. There are also rooms for the tug-of-war team and the fencing club...
...communication in your issue of Friday in regard to tug-of-war gives one the impression that nothing remains to be said in its favor. Not with standing the forcible objections therein urged, something may be said...
...long course of careful and faithful training. He does not wait until within three or four weeks, and then by a few irregular trials, each to his utmost capacity, attempt to put himself in good form and condition. As a general rule candidates for a tug-of-war team think that they are, as a matter of course, first class tug-of-war men, and in attempting to prove themselves so, they strain themselves...
There is just as much science and knack required in pulling in tug-of-war as there is in any athletic event, and when this fact is recognized by the candidate the chances of serious injury are greatly reduced. He should prepare himself, as candidates for other teams do, by a careful course of training and coaching. When a man pulls in good form the danger of serious injury is very slight. There are few men, if any, who, by pulling on the rope in good form, can put a greater strain upon the back and legs then they...
...present time it would be inadvisable to request the intercollegiate association to abolish tug-of-war. At Columbia they regard it with nearly, if not quite, as much interest as we do football. They have two of last year's team, and available material fully capable of filling the vacancies. They have already had a series of class pulls. Princeton has practically the same team. It is scarcely probably that either of these will consent to abolish an event the chances of winning which are so greatly in their favor. Then, Yale intends to enter a team at Mott Haven...