Word: start
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stenography, an easy style, and a fair understanding of the rudiments of grammar and rhetoric, nothing further is required of the average reporter. A man who has spent four years in acquiring a thorough college training naturally expects that what he has gained there ought to enable him to start in on a higher round of the ladder, and sets his hopes on entering some other profession; or, perhaps, if he has better chances of success, into some branch of business. The only training for journalism college men receive is the work they do on the college papers, which...
...this age of competition few men can really afford to spend seven or eight years of the best part of their lives in unrenumerative study. The young man who goes into business is already earning his living when he who has chosen a professional career is just making his start. The age at which men graduate has showed a continual tendency to advance, and few now leave the college before they are twenty-three years old. To counteract this tendency, which, although theoretically advantageous, is practically very inconvenient. Time must be saved wherever possible, since the faculties who are most...
...them are known as excellent players. The first nine men are: Fred M. Tilden, Harvard; F. H. Parker, Dartmouth; Dr. C. W. Plummer, Northwestern University; A. T. Packard, Ann Arbor; H. F. Burket, Oberlin; W. A. Gardner, Yale; Hubbard, Yale; Allen, Yale; Hibbard Ann Arbor. It will start on an eastern trip in May or before, and will play the leading college and amateur clubs...
Professor Laughlin is going to start immediately for the Babamas, where he will stay until the middle of March, when he will go into business in New York...
From the extracts which we publish this morning of the fifth and sixth annual reports of the American School at Athens may be seen how great is the activity and how extensive the work accomplished by this institution. The colleges which six years ago continued to start this excellent institution have earned the gratitude of a large body of men interested in Greek archaeology and Greek literature. Through the earnest efforts of the committee which has conducted the management of the school, it has been placed on a level with the English and French schools which exist in Athens...