Word: warring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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SAMUEL DEXTER 1st.T. S. WOODS, J. W. LUND.The following men will please be at the gymnasium at 4 p. m. to try for the '90 tug-of-war team: Emmons, J. Crane, Gorham, George, Darling, Buttimore, Henshaw, and any others who care to try, whether they have pulled before...
Some scholars have refused to believe that Homer wished to describe the Trojan war and even Mr. Glad stone in our day is said to believe that the poems are full of Egyptian mythology. We have today a more correct text than ever before. Homer has a wonderful ability to enter into the spirit of his poems and make his characters perfect representatives of the qualities they typify. Achilles, the type of heroic might, violent in anger and sorrow, capable also of chivalrous and tender compassion-Odyssey, the type of resourceful intelligence. joined to heroic endurance. How remarkable...
...BRUEGGER, Secretary.The '91 tug-of-war team will practice this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the boxing room of the gymnasium. More candidates must come...
...meeting of the candidates for the '90 tug-of-war team was to have been held Monday afternoon but no one appeared. It is to be deeply regretted that '90 showed no interest in the organization of a team, for unless all the classes are to be represented at the winter meeting there cannot well be a tug-of-war contest, as a three sided competition is unfair for one of the teams. It is to be hoped that sufficient '90 men will come forward to organize. That there is good material is well known and it should certainly...
...Danish war several duchies were gained without any decision being made as to whom they should finally belong, but here Bismarck showed his devotedness to the idea that it was lawful to take what he was strong enough to seize; for, when Austria had been conquered he took possession of them almost by force...