Word: warring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second ballot was cast and Hunt received 40 votes and Batchelder 39. G. R. Fearing '93 and P. W. Davis'93 were nominated for secretary and Fearing was elected, 54 votes to 21. The motion was made, seconded and carried to refer the much disputed question of tug-of-war to a committee. The meeting then adjourned...
...nearest approach to one of the famous war articles is the account of an escape from Dixie...
DEAR SIRS:- I wish to call attention through your columns to the negligence of the H. A. A. in not giving medals for the tug-of-war teams in the last winter meeting. At the non-appearance of the Yale team three members of the '93 team and Mr. Wright, '92, volunteered to pull against the 'varsity to make an event...
President Eliot went on to say that Henry L. Higginson '55 entered the army when the war broke out. He was wounded in '63 and had to leave. He became a successful business man, has made the best use of his money, and is now doing what his six friends would have liked to do in helping the development of manly sports...
...much cannot be said of the "Story of the Peninsular War," which contains a good deal of sensation and sentimentalism in a small space. It is, however, not without merit...