Word: start
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...condition of affairs will tend to a tremendous boom in rowing, which can not fail to make a marked improvement in the quality of Yale's work at the oar. It seems to us that it would be well for our rowing men to emulate them, and to start a corresponding boom, Why can not we have a second eight? It is very well known that the competition for seats in the 'Varsity is comparatively limited, but the formation of a second crew with the incentive of possibly representing the college in Union regattas would arouse great interest, and bring...
...foot-ball season has been remarkable for the determination with which Princeton has worked to retrieve the record of last year, when both Harvard and Yale defeated this college. To do this, there were but four old players to start with; and as one of these was injured during the season, eight new men had to be found. Faithful practice and the best captaincy Princeton has had for years, has produced a team which defeated Harvard more severely than she was ever defeated...
...Sears, '83, will be one of a yachting party which is shortly to start on a cruise to the Mediterranean...
...they were very favorably received, but they in turn presented several new faces, the absence of Adams, Wesselhoeft, Cabot and Kimball being particularly noticeable. Harvard had the kich-off and at the word of Mr. Peace the referee opined the game. Nervousness was apparent among our backs at the start and several bad plays brought the ball gradually to our territory. Richards and Terry tried desperately for goals from the field, but were each time interrupted by the sharp play of our rush line which soon settled down to hard and steady work. Harvard was held back for some time...
...education has been of important service to him in his struggle for existence. When in need it did not secure for him a better place than that of car conductor, and as a car conductor it is no help to him. He can pull the bell to stop and start the car, and can make change no more skillfully than if his head had never ached over a Latin grammar or he had never read a French novel. And yet it would not be advisable to argue from this that all our colleges should be shut...