Word: outset
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Professor Legouis hints, though most courteously, that in intellectual "Olympics" our "literary and scientific teams" might make a poor showing against competitors of the same age who were trained by the mature system of the Sorbonne. And Professor Eucken, though he refrains from open contrasts, emphasizes at the very outset of his article that "the character and importance of German universities depends particularly on the close connection between investigation and instruction: the teachers not only impart traditional knowledge, but they are themselves occupied in discovering new facts and increasing the intellectual possessions of mankind. Thus the auditor is introduced into...
...industries in which monopoly conditions are found were these monopolies established without resort to predatory methods, which are contrary to the common law. It is often assumed that costs of production are lessened through the monopoly organization of industry. At the outset, it does often happen that savings are made in the expense of marketing and through the adoption in all plants of the best methods in use in the various plants included in the combination. But that progressive improvement will go on as rapidly as under competition is far from certain...
...cheering intended to rattle or otherwise impede the players of the opposing team is unsportsmanlike and should be stopped. We cannot too heartily agree. Throughout the football season the CRIMSON urged upon the undergraduates the value of cheering as an inspiration to the team, but we said at the outset that there were certain risks connected with it. On November 13 in an editorial we said, "There is a danger ... that the cheer leaders will be induced to give cheers that will drown our own or our opponents' signals. This of course is not to be tolerated." In the Yale...
...country, demonstrated that most clearly on Saturday. Why then do not the students enter into the spirit of the games with more vigor? Our team has coaching second to none; every man on the team, as Captain Fisher has said, is a fighter; but if, at the outset of an important game, any player makes a mistake and the opposing team seems to "get the jump" for a moment, the student body seems to lose heart and to desert the team. Thereafter, the players must combat not only the strength of their adversaries, but the discouraging pessimism of the whole...
...Camp before beginning his task of explanation, said that it was largely because of the splendid way in which the officials handled the game last year that the rules met with such popular success at the outset...