Word: starting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...indicated as often render the beginning of bicycle and foot races tame, dull, and almost ridiculous; but that due preliminary husbanding of reserve force which leaves a reserve to be drawn upon for later spurts. As a matter of fact, however, one crew or another is likely to start at top speed, particularly when several are in the race, and therefore the crews must be trained accordingly. It is extremely difficult and sometimes inexpedient to hold a crew down to a slow normal stroke under such conditions. On the whole, therefore, having regard to the impracticability of expending a long...
Yale won the relay swimming race on Saturday afternoon in the Dunster tank. Yale got the better start and this lead was slowly increased throughout the race, the final man winning by a large margin. The tank is 43 feet long, and each man swam four lengths. Time, two minutes seven and one-fourth seconds...
...game was hard fought but Harvard made her best showing of the season and secured a big lead at the start. Princeton's defense was not very strong, and was unable to check effectively the fast work of the Harvard forwards. The best playing was done by Winsor and Carr for Harvard, and by Purnell for Princeton. The line-up: HARVARD. PRINCETON. Pruyn, f. f., Ogden. Winsor, f. f., Purnell. Foster, f. f., Leake. Rumsey, f. f., McAlpin. Penhallow, c.p. c.p., Poe. Carr, p. p., Sheffield. Manning, g. g., Paull...
...pharmacists, who sell their goods at cost price to members of mutual aid societies. The greatest benefit, however, which the societies afford is the system known as the "credit populaire," by which money is lent without interest to needy workmen, thus giving them necessary encouragement and a proper start in their occupations...
...Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and in the evening will attend the Harvard Club dinner at the Waldorf. The President will leave for Baltimore Friday night and on Saturday he will be present at the various exercises connected with the twenty-fifth anniversary of Johns Hopkins. On Saturday night he will start for Cambridge...