Word: starting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Balliet, 166 lbs., is short and therefore has to reach too far to keep up with the other men, buries oar too deep in the water at the finish, and is slow to start on recover...
...department of the University which receives the greater part of this delegation is not the college but the graduate and professional schools. harvard cannot pretend to compete long with the growing western universities in the matter of rudimentary college education. But in the higher departments Harvard has a great start on the new western universities, and as eastern brains and enterprise are as great as western, there is no reason why Harvard should not keep her lead and continue to attract advanced students from the West. This means, however, that increased attention must be paid to the graduate and professional...
...State University, has accepted the presidency of the Stanford University, at Palo Alto, Cal. This means the loss to Indiana of her most distinguished educator. The salary attached to Mr. Jordan's new position is $10,000 with a residence. The university over which he is to preside will start, says Senator Stanford, with the kindergarten, and end with post-graduates from the highest course possible...
...Freshman Banjo Club suffered in common with the Glee Club, from a very late start, not getting to work till after Christmas. Since then, however, the men have been at work very steadily, and their progress has been, on the whole, better than that of the Glee Club, though their work is still far from satisfactory. Individually they play well, but as a whole they lack that dash and precision which come only from long practice. This lack of unity, however, is due more to the tardy organization of the club than to any other cause, and the fault will...
Second-The course will be re-surveyed. The start and finish are to be accurately fixed and stone posts set to mark each half mile, with "range posts" on the shore. The floats, etc., will be repaired...