Word: start
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...case of fire to be his own fire company and subdue the rising flames before they became dangerous and out of his control. The plan is one which brings the recommendation, not only of safety but of economy, For, if every man could readily extinguish any fire at the start, no large fires would take place, and the college would be a gainer as well as the student. The grenades once provided would last almost indefinitely and the small number which it is probable would be used could readily be replaced from a reserve...
...reported that Princeton is to start a daily newspaper...
Wilberforce University, Ohio, has recently equipped a troupe of singers, accompanied by an elocutionist of rare abilities. They are about to start on a tour in the interest of the University...
...efforts of one Thomas Lord, who was promised the support of Lord Winchilsea, Col. Lennox, afterward Duke of Richmond, and others, if he would start a ground at Marylebone in secession to the ground in the White Conduit Fields, then probably being built over. Lord was a descendant of a Roman Catholic family of Yorkshire farmers who had suffered in the confiscations of 1745. About 1782 he was a wine merchant and a cricketer of great zeal and some ability. Lord, who appears to have had energy, closed with the offer, and established a ground in what is now Dorset...
...indications for lacrosse next year are that the team which have to play better than ever college team has done before. In beginning its winter work in the gymnasium then, our team must start off with the clear understanding that they must improve upon the standard of our play in preceding years. Time was when about all the scientific knowledge of lacrosse that existed among the colleges was held at Harvard. Our twelves had a system of team playing when our rivals had practically none; and, in consequence of this superiority, although we were sometimes deficient in other respects, notably...