Word: started
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Regatta Committee reported a long list of promises for the fulfilment of which the Saratoga Rowing Association had given bonds, which would seem to embrace everything that could be desired. The finish is to be off Ramsdell's Point, so that the start will be on the west side of Snake Hill, in order that more people can see the race and that there shall be no danger of beaching on Ramsdell's Point. The positions of the crews are, numbering from the west shore: 1, Williams; 2, Cornell; 3, Amherst; 4, Bowdoin; 5, Brown; 6, Columbia; 7, Wesleyan...
Just as the train began to start...
...society spirit seems still to increase. We have received several articles in favor of a Whist Club. Although it seems rather needless to start a society when the game can be played with as much enjoyment in our rooms, and with what company we please, yet a club has some advantages; very probably the room of one society, where a fire is always kept, could be obtained reasonably. One great good arising from many of the newly formed societies is the bringing together of different class-men. The sprightly Freshman may checkmate the sedate Senior, and the majestic Sophomore discourse...
...fossilized inhabitants of old Plymouth. He informs us that game is plenty; and a brace of fat partridges hanging in the office, shot that day by a boy, serve to confirm his statement and make us eager for the fray. We soon retire, having arranged for an early start in the morning...
...ready adoption of a suggestion in the last Magenta relating to the formation of a Chess Club, and the prompt calling of a meeting to start such a society, give us reason to believe that there exists at Harvard a number of men skilled in chess, and willing to give part of their time to the study of it. The interest shown at the meeting called yesterday afternoon to consider the question is also encouraging. A committee, consisting of Mr. Stimson, '76, Mr. Chase, '76, and Mr. Lowell, '76, was appointed to draw up a Constitution, to be reported early...