Word: starting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...current Advocate contains four stories rather above the general average of college literature in point of literary skill. All of these have something to relate, and the interest of the reader is claimed at the very start and kept to the end. The writers do not indulge in fine writing or unusual phrases but take the sensible course of the story-teller who is interested in his plot for itself and not for the opportunity of showing his knack as a prose artist...
Harvard defeated Yale in dual track games on Holmes Field Saturday afternoon by the score of 56 points to 48. The games were the closest and most exciting that have ever been held on Holmes Field. Every race was a struggle from start to finish, and in the shorter races the judges had trouble in deciding upon the winners...
...nine was easily beaten by Princeton last Saturday, 12-2, in a one-sided game in which Princeton took the lead at the start and forged steadily ahead to the finish...
...Varsity and College eights rowed a mile race from just below the Harvard Bridge to the Longwood Bridge, yesterday. The water was too rough to start from the lower end of the basin. The college crew got a good start, gradually drew ahead, and kept their lead for the end. They rowed a slower stroke than the 'Varsity and seemed to get a better nip and leg-shove, sending their boat along in excellent style. Towards the end the 'Varsity made a spurt, but were unable to gain and were beaten by about one length and a half...
...race yesterday between the Freshmen and B. A. A. was called off, as one of the men in the B. A. A. boat broke an oar about 200 yards from the start. On account of the rough water, they did not start the race over again but allowed the crews to row on. The Freshmen gradually drew away from the B. A. A. boat...