Word: warring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...following clipping from the Yale News shows the possible stand that Yale will take in regard to tug-of-war contests at the intercollegiate games: Tug-of-war team. - The candidates for the University tug-of-war team will commence active training next Monday under the charge of Britton, P. G., and all men wishing to try for positions on the team must hand their names to Mr. Dole, immediately...
...position of our executive department in regard to foreign relations. For the executive may have a policy - not approved by Congress - which he may carry out in secret to a point where the nation, without knowing the facts or the justice of the cause, may be forced into a war. * * * * It is hardly necessary to reiterate the oft-repeated criticism, that our diplomatic service is in need of reform. It is safe to say, without any undue criticism of Mr. Egan, that if we had a trained diplomat in Chile, and naval officers more inclined to follow the strict letter...
Boston University has decided to abolish tug-of war contests at that college...
This open expression of opinion from our conservative contemporary gives encouragement to the hope that this year's meeting will see the abolition of the tug-of-war...
...annual business meeting of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association a week from today. Harvard's representatives will again raise the question as to the advisability of dropping the tug-of-war from the list of events contested for the Mott Haven cup. For a number of years Harvard has been consistent in her advocacy of this reform, and for some time the sentiment has been becoming general among the larger colleges against the tug-of-war. Last year Yale, Princeton and Amherst voted with Harvard to drop by event from the program, but the small colleges and Columbia defeated the motion...