Word: start
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feeling. The condition named by them was that the race should be rowed upon a certain date. Moreover, owing to the fact that all the conditions for the race were not agreed upon until the last moment, our crew was obliged to yield a point at the very start, and consequently had to row the race with the moral disadvantage of having the men in the Yale boat practically ahead of the Harvard crew. This year naturally the boat club desires that all points should be settled in advance; for it seems entirely reasonable that such questions should be settled...
...Barnes, '86, has been elected on the Crimson editorial start...
...play this year. Of the prospects of the nine, it is of course too early to speak with any degree of certainty. From present appearances, it will be composed almost entirely of new men, or men who have played but two or three games. It is crippled at the start by the withdrawal from college of Mr. Bean, last year's pitcher, from whom much was expected in the games next spring. At any rate, the nine will be composed of men who have earned their places in it by hard work, and if faithful practice under an energetic captain...
...bicycle tournament to be held in the Institute Fair building, Boston, on Thursday, Feb. 1. Prince and Frye will start from scratch in a ten-mile handicap race, in which Rollinson will receive 30s. and Harrison 40s. start, and others according to their abilities...
...friend the Acta Columbiana is always up to time with a judicious assortment of poetry and prose, as a rule very good; and though it has given many hard knocks to Harvard during the past three months, we can make allowances, and start the new year with every wish for continued success...