Word: start
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Oxford-Cambridge race on Saturday resulted in an easy victory for the Cambridge men, who led from the start. Oxford broke an oar at the end of the third mile, but rowed out the race pluckily. Cambridge had a professional coxswain...
...system of college elective studies was given its first start in this country in 1851, when Dr. Francis Wayland, president of Brown University, who had been making investigations abroad, published his "New College System...
There is no need of enumerating the painful details of the system. They are known too well. I wish, instead, to petition the CRIMSON to start a public agitation against the system. The power of the CRIMSON and its influence were manifested in the results of the prayer petition. Use, then, this mighty engine for the good of the armies of Harvard men still to come...
...small tuft of hair seems to spring from the big man's head. "Halt!" cries his opponent's second. The swords are instantly stuck up by the seconds and the umpire steps up to examine the head. It was a close shave, but the skin is whole, so they start again. The men are now getting terribly excited. Breathless and panting they slash away at each other; and it is no easy matter for the seconds to stop them at the word "halt." - London Society...
...turn the classes into a sort of Comitia Tributa to vote on the said proposition? Why not start the university club on a basis that shall include athletics? Certainly here is a motive for mass meetings of the members at frequent intervals, I mean, to discuss, and what is more, vote upon the management of the various teams and nines and crews. The interest in athletics would be increased, I would not wonder if subscriptions - to use a money-market term - should become easier. A feeling of personal interest in the teams would be fostered, and position...