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...Yale and Columbia tug-of-war teams will pull in New Haven on St. Patrick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/15/1887 | See Source »

...absence of any special reason strong enough to supply motive power to keep the club going. Though there are half a hundred reasons for desiring the club, no one of them is sufficiently important to become the one prominent motive for it, and as they all, as it were, pull different ways the reasons neutralize each other and matters remain in statu...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The University Club. | 3/15/1887 | See Source »

Chase, '88, is in bad health and will probably be unable to pull on the '88 tug-of-war. Crocker has taken Purdon's place at number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/11/1887 | See Source »

Hight, '89, has been obliged to leave college on account of illness arising from overtraining on his class tug-of-war team and crew. Of course he will be now unable to pull on the tug-of-war, and there is even some fear that he will not be able to row on the crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/10/1887 | See Source »

...sophomore and freshman tug-of-war teams are now hard at work. The candidates for positions on the '89 team tug every afternoon on the cleats in the basement of the gymnasium from 5 to 5.30 p.m., The freshmen start in just as soon as '89 gets through and pull for half an hour. The sophomore candidates for anchor are Perry and Pfeiffer, while the freshmen trying for the same position are Higginson, Sturgis and Chamberlain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/26/1887 | See Source »

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