Word: outset
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...progress of athletic education in this country has no doubt read with great pleasure the vigorous and scientific article of Dr. Sargent on a new system of physical measurements. The CRIMSON takes great pride in being the first paper to publish the anthropometric chart, and thus at the outset acknowledges such a valuable scientific work. The chart is a new departure in physical training and one that will be certain to have great influence in the schools, colleges and gymnasiums of this country; and the men of this university ought to feel proud that this aid and incentive to scientific...
...studies of the morning and early afternoon, and it was in order to meet this demand that the club was first started. The cold, invigorating weather of the next two months and the character of the country round about Cambridge, made the sport a very popular one from the outset, so much so in fact, that last year the number of runs was increased from one to two a week and if the proper spirit is shown, may be still further increased this year...
...their men unshipped his seat several times. This hard luck seemed to follow them to New London. In the first place their Waters boat began to soften very perceptibly a few days before the race, and in the race itself an accident occurred which decided from the outset the result of the contest...
...university club, but the club of men who had no stronger ties to draw them elsewhere; ties which would exist to every man who was not a non-society man, or who was even ordinarily busy. Our argument, which occurs to every one, is of course that at the outset the club threatens to be too large for success. The success in the limitation of membership of any club is seen in the conduct of every well-known society which commands a "waiting list." But it is just such limitation which would kill the university club at the outset. What...
...This course is intentionally made rather tough in order to discourage cramming at the outset and promote, thorough, steady work...