Word: start
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bill of $80 and another of $8.55. There is no reason why the debt can not be paid off if men will subscribe, but it is absolutely necessary that everyone should give something. Last year subscriptions fell off largely. If we have to pay off the debt and start square next fall every man must help...
...what was lacking besides to secure the balance of advantage for victory Yale achieved through better kicking. Princeton could hardly be expected also to equal Harvard in rushing with a rush line of a gross weight even more disproportionate to Harvard's than Yale's, which from the start of the match was crippled by the loss of the most powerful and skilled rusher of it. But the Harvard-Princeton game was certainly a splendid demonstration of what the rushing of a heavy team can do when it is not exactly provided against. The possibilities, however, of the defensive ability...
After the Revolution, Columbia College, having dropped its royal name and patron as well as its Tory president and Tory professors of history, took a fresh start under American auspices. An old broadside, preserved in the Columbia Library, contains the statutes of the college for 1785 and a "Plan of Education," whereby it appears that history was first taught in what was then a unique way for America. The Rev. John Gross, Professor of German and Geography, from 1784 to 1795, taught the sophomore class three times a week, in a course which was characterized as a "Description...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:-I am among the many who rejoice in the start that has been made against snobbery among us. But I hope that this question will not be confined to the comparatively limited extent of the snobbery toward good yet socially unpolished athletes, which was the burden of the senior class dinner oration. The only fault to be found with that oration is that it did not go far enough and condemn, more specifically than it did, the pretty widespread snobbery which is practiced toward non athletic men by their fellow students who consider themselves far above them...
...Glee Club, together with the Banjo and Mandolin Clubs, have been thoroughly organized and have given half a dozen concerts thus far. The Glee Club is considered the best for several years, and the Mandolin Club makes a great hit wherever it is heard. The clubs start on their annual trip the day after Christmas, giving their first concert at Harrisburg and then going through the northern part of Pennsylvania and New York on a three weeks trip...