Word: start
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University of Pennsylvania would like to start an inter-collegiate cricket league...
...thought best not to start the society until a large number of men should signify their approbation. It was therefore voted to make this number five hundred, but it was finally changed to four hundred. It was also voted that a board of directors be provisionally elected, and, when once the necessary number of names be found, the board should remain the officers of the society...
...start the example of having a class album. A man graduates from college but once in his life and surely it is worth $18 to have an album containing the pictures of all the members of one's class...
...boats were started by the sterns. So far the correspondent's information is correct; but they were judged by the bows at the finish, and it is in this fact that the kernel of the whole matter lies. It was generally understood by the Harvard crew as they drew up to the stake boat that the boats were to start by sterns and finish by sterns, but a remark from Captain Hull before starting undeceived them, and the time was actually taken as the bows crossed the finish. Now, considering the closeness of the race...
...protocols and diplomatic notes, as if they were two great powers arranging a complicated treaty. The whole trouble is caused by the fact that Yale is to row in a boat slightly longer than Harvard's, so that there is a difficulty as to deciding how the boats shall start. Harvard wishes it understood her way before she accepts Yale's challenge, and Yale wishes the challenge accepted and the matter arranged afterwards. Harvard has sent an 'ultimatum,' and the Sublime Port and Starboard committee of New Haven are deliberating their answer to it. Meanwhile trade is depressed...