Word: embark
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With 13 clashes behind it, the University baseball team is about to embark on the most difficult half of its schedule Losing only two contests so far, it has pounded the opposing hurlers for a total of 161 safe blows. The Crimson players have, during the season, tallied 149 runs, while their opponents have crossed the plate 45 times
...plan now is for the entire Cadet Corps to embark at West Point on Friday afternoon, October 19, on a vessel of the Fall River Line, and steam into Boston harbor on Saturday morning. The return would be made Saturday night...
...itinerary as released yesterday is as follows: Embark at Boston Navy Yard June 21; arrive Halifax June 23; leave Halifax June 26, arrive Portland June 30; leave Portland July 3; disembark Boston Navy Yard July 4. It has been suggested that when the ship leaves Boston she might proceed to New London for the Harvard-Yale boat races the next day and leave for Halifax from there. Owing to the heavy demands upon the time of the Wyoming all next summer and the difficulty of rearranging the itinerary, there is only a bare possiblity that this part of the program...
...plan of the Faculty of the Engineering School and the Officers of the Society to provide graduate advice for students about to embark on an engineering career seems an excellent one, and an importance advance in post-graduate service for universities. "It is not intended that a graduate shall secure a position for a student,": says the announcement, "but rather that he will help the student to shape successfully his career." The graduates of at least ten years' standing, successful business men who have volunteered to help, are available in sufficient numbers. The only possible thwarting of the plan might...
...Reichsrat or "Council of the States of the Republic" rejected a bill proposing that Germany should embark upon a naval building program which called for the construction of one armored cruiser of 10,000 tons. Since the august consent of the Reichsrat must be obtained before a bill can be introduced in Parliament, the proposed "naval program" was definitely quashed. (See COMMONWEALTH and FRANCE...