Word: start
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...helped the Crimson on to victory. The old adage, 'there's safety in numbers,' never applied to anything so forcibly as to athletics. The eleven is going to find a strong rival on Holmes' Field in June, and it will do well to bear this in mind from the start...
...continues, and the action taken by our representatives affects only this year's race. When we saw that we could not compromise on a date for the race we thought this would be a good time to liquidate the debt that has been embarrassing us for several years, and start out next fall unimpeded to train for next year's race. This course, I am sure, will commend itself to our alumni, who like to see business methods used in such matters. In order to keep up general interest in rowing matters throughout the college we intend to make...
...complaint we do not think, but we know that we speak for the college in emphatically denouncing the action of the spectators in the hissing which played a prominent part in some of the sparring bouts. That an excited crowd will blindly follow its sudden impulses, if given a start by one bolder than his fellows we know, but men should control and hide such open bursts of feeling, and must do so it the gentlemanly character of Harvard sports is to be kept up. The hissing once started, it was easy to keep it up without the slightest provocation...
...tides flow off of the marshes and piles itself up in the river. There are two large coal schooners that were caught by the ice at Richardson and Bacon's wharf, and it is probable that tugs will soon break their way up and tow them away. This will start the ice, and the tide, aided by the sun, which is now so high as to be quite effective on the salt ice, will soon clear the river. The crews will probably be out by the twentieth at the latest...
...agree with our correspondent of yesterday in his bitter denunciation of the base-ball management. The gentlemen who form that management are doing everything in their power to get the faculty to allow our nines to play against professionals, and if it does not seem best to them to start a petition, we should not find fault with them for that and denounce them as if they were employing no other means to obtain the desired result. They are the best judges. As a matter of fact, we have been assured by the management that they have been very...