Word: warring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Mott Haven team, yesterday afternoon, meeting at 3.30 in the Trophy room at the gymnasium. There was a decided lack of "heavy-weights," which betokens a weakness in shot-putting and hammerthrowing that must be overcome if Harvard is going to win at New York next spring. Tug-of-war men also were at a premium, and it is to be hoped more men of the heavy stamp will turn up. The following men have handed in their names as candidates...
...War.- E. W. Grew, John Endicott, G. L. Deblois...
...graduated only six were left to attend the sixtieth anniversary. Two have died during the past year. Those present Thursday evening were: Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Rev. Dr. S. F. Smith, author of the hymn "America"; Rev. Samuel May, class secretary and a prominent abolitionist before the war; Rev. Dr. Stickney, of Royalton, Vt.; Rev. A. S. Devens, of Boston, and Charles Storrow, who is president of the class organization...
There will be a handicap tug-of-war contest at the twelfth annual meeting of the Manhattan Athletic Club which is to be held today...
...revived by the sophomores at Amherst. The whole class, attired in fantastic costumes, assembled last Monday evening, and held a trial at which the Geometry was pronounced guilty. It was then seized, carried to the class tree, and placed upon a funeral pyre, and the sophomores joined in a war dance while the book was being cremated. Nearly ninetenths of the class were conditioned at the examination...