Word: start
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...English athletes of those days were vastly superior to our own, and yet their peculiarities of measuring, starting, timing, etc., make their records amusing reading enough; for instance, the tremendous jumping feats mentioned above were probably accomplished by throwing weights from the hands. To-day the most careful scrutiny is expended on a new athletic record, and until it has been accepted by the Spirit of the Times as correct, it is generally looked upon with suspicious eyes. The perfection of rules of measuring, starting and timing, make the present records all over the world uniform, and establish them...
...their class sleigh-ride and banquet. Several rushes of the male members of the classes took place after this, and among the female portion a lively hair-pulling contest was inaugurated. Last Thursday afternoon the freshmen retaliated by capturing several sophomores just as the entire class was about to start on a sleigh-ride. The police interfered and rescued the sophomores. The class then drove to the place where they were to hold their banquet, but found it surrounded by such a crowd of freshmen that they were afraid to alight. The result of the whole affair is that several...
...chance at the championship": and so on ad nauseum. And often too, there is some truth in these statements. For, relying on the powers of a few men, we have made no attempt to bring out the skill which may exist in other quarters. Hence, we have substantially to start afresh whenever a team loses several of its strongest...
...liquor moderately and had it on their sideboards for all; and the heresy in regard to license. The only way in which the terrible power of the liquor organizations in our country could be fought was in having the young men take a decided stand against it from the start...
...seems in some way unsatisfactory, yet it is undoubtedly the best and only decision to make. The unanimous opinion of the meeting, - and the meeting represented the college, - was that the Thames River is too narrow under the most favorable circumstances of wind and weather for three crews to start abreast with equal chances as to course and room. Yet it seems hardly fair to keep out Yale freshmen from such a contest, there being no reason for it. But Columbia left the matter with us to decide and so something had to be done. Now the Yale freshmen have...