Word: began
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...close feeling of friendship, amounting almost to brotherhood, is masterfully drawn. The test of an imaginative work is the power it has of hypnotising its readers. Mr. Copeland felt that the first part of the book did exercise this influence upon him, but that just as soon as Trilby began to be hypnotised, he began to wake up, and from that time the book fell off in interest tremendously. The one person in the book, he said, who is not only a type but an individual, is Trilby herself...
...Harvard Rifles began regular drill again yesterday afternoon. With the new year the long expected guns have arrived. They were used for the first time yesterday and will be regularly in future. With them the equipment of the men is completed...
Yesterday afternoon the 'varsity crew again began active training after the Christmas recess. Both squads were somewhat short-handed, so little could be done. The first squad took a short run and the second squad rowed. It seems probable that the present policy of prescribing for the crew candidates long walks and runs on certain days instead of the usual practice on the rowing machines will be continued by the 'varsity coaches...
...candidates for the freshman crew now number less than thirty men. All the men began to row with sliding seats last Friday. The following men are trying for the crew: D. M. Goodrich, J. H. Perkins, A. F. Riggs, L. L. Gillespie, R. C. Aldrich, W. H. Reed, F. L. Ames, H. A. Rice, H. McBurney, A. F. Barnes, G. H. Scull, J. C. Rice, D. B. Lloyd, C. A. Hurley, A. DuBois, C. M. Sheafe, G. H. K. Kinnicutt, F. Dobyns, E. Maynard, J. M. Thayer, H. K. Brent, H. Dunning, L. S. Butler, W. W. Woodward...
When the Puritans gave up their dictation in religious matters, and these were taken up by the people, the national church began. Its creed is now that of sixty-nine of the seventy millions inhabitants of the United States. Of these the great majority believe that the soul is immortal, and that God, in his love, sent Jesus Christ to save mankind; all unite in firm belief in a God who is a mighty power of law and love to his children; and the creed of the national church, whose head is the American people, is maintained by them...