Word: starting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...nine is composed of men who are as good individually at least, as any other lot of nine men picked from one college. We shall probably have as coach Colonel Winslow, to whose effort a great part of the success of last year's nine is due. We start the season then very auspiciously and improvement ought to be rapid. The games on the spring trip are with strong nines, which will give the team excellent practice, one may expect then that the faults now so apparent will be far less prominent on the return of the nine to Cambridge...
...that they do not insist as strongly as we do that the back shall be kept perfectly straight. If a man can row better so, they do not object to a slight curve of the shoulders. In the management of the slide, too, there are some differences. The Americans start their slides very fast, then slow them up about half way, and gradually come to a full stop. The Englishmen get their hands away very quickly, but slide forward slowly...
...Lathrop is to start a class this afternoon at four o'clock in spring board leaping. All those who have ever turned somersalts off the spring board or would like to learn how, are urged to join. The class will meet daily at 4 and the best men will be selected to give an exhibition next Saturday...
...weather and the condition of the ground will permit, the candidates for the 'varsity football team will be set to work at the usual spring practice. This practice will probably continue until the last of April and Captain Waters will be able in this time to get a good start in his work. Manager Lane has already begun to make dates for the fall season and the schedule of games will be nearly completed before the close of college in June...
Best general references: Patten's Economic Basis of Protection; Hoyt's Protection vs. Free Trade; Start's Phamphlet, Early American Statesmen on the Tariff; McKinley's Speech, Cong. Rec. (1890) Vol. 21, p. 4248. Aldrich's speech, Cong...