Word: start
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...given to members of the junior and senior classes at times which will be announced shortly in the class-room. Seniors and juniors have two recitations a week, as do also the sophomores, and the freshmen will meet the instructor once a week. All the classes will probably start alike in the subject, and later on some change will be made with advanced students in the character of the selections chosen for study...
About an hour and a half later Baker was ready to run the quarter. He got an excellent start, and settled to his work in magnificent style. About half way he seemed to falter and have trouble with one of his shoes, but kicking it loose, he pluckily continued as swiftly as ever. Running upwards of 200 yards with but one shoe makes his record of 47 3-4 seconds all the more marvelous. 47 3-4 seconds breaks the previous world's amateur record of 48 3 5 seconds, made by Myers, at Birmingham, England, in 1881. It also...
...short distance runs. Baker, '86, will try to equal or better 10s., the record made by E. J. Wendell in the 100 yards, and Wells, '86, will try to run 440 yards in less than Baker's record, 50 1-4s. Fiske, '86. will be given a start of 3 yards in the 100, and Wheeler, '86, 30 yards in the quarter. It will depend on the weather conditions as to whether the track at Beacon or Mystic Park is used. Those who wish to see the races must be ready to start from the gymnasium...
There is nothing worthy of much comment on the upper two miles, until we come to the start, which is directly opposite the Harvard quarters. The starting point is in the middle of a great bed of eel grass, about which we have heard so much. The grass seems to grow very luxuriantly in this especial place, lying in great masses all over the surface of the river. But notwithstanding everything said about it, it really doesn't stop a boat very much, the main inconvenience being the difficulty one has in rowing his oar. About three-eighths...
...account of examinations, the Yale crew will not start for New London until Thursday. On Friday there is talk of their rowing the University of Pennsylvania, who, if they are successful, intend to challenge Harvard...