Word: warring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...CADY. Capt.The candidates for the 'varsity tug-of-war team will please meet in the gymnasium at four o'clock Monday afternoon...
...opened the discussion for the negative; he said that he did not demand the increase of the navy as a means to reduce the surplus, nor because of rumors of war, but for purely economical reasons; that our commercial relations with the rest of the world demanded that our navy be largely increased. He quoted many authorities to show that the navy has never been in a worse condition, and claimed that by the testimony of the navy department, the navy is utterly inadequate to our needs. He dwelt particularly upon the necessity of a navy to lend dignity...
There is no tug-of-war team at present. Captain Mandell will endeavor to have the rules governing the tug-of-war revised with a view to making them more definite as to what is allowed and what is not. The spring meeting will come either on April...
...action of the colonies in putting this paper into circulation, and her opposition to it had more to do with the cause of the rebellion than is generally supposed. It was in 1811 that the first issue of treasury notes was made to meet the expenses of the coming war with England. They were mostly in sums of $100. and were never intended for general circulation; but this action of the treasury established a deplorable precedent, which those in favor of paper money in later years did not fail to make use of. Up to 1861, all attempts to make...
...considerable experience in this kind of work, having filled a similar position at the University of Pennsylvania, where he developed Keen. He will come the last of this month and be with the men for a month before the games. Little interest is manifested in the tug-of-war although four of last year's team are in college and Yale ought to take second in the event...