Word: outset
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Freshmen defeated Brown 1901 Saturday afternoon on Soldiers Field, in a close nine-inning game. by the score of 9 to 8. At the outset, 1901 took the lead, and maintained it up to the seventh inning. McDonald was then found for four singles, which helped Brown net four runs. In the next inning, however, the Freshmen tied the score, through Kendall's base running, and in the ninth, Fincke reached first on a neat single, stole second, and finally scored on Jaynes...
...regulations which will govern competition for the debate with Princeton form a third step towards remedying the faults presented at the outset this year by the debating situation at Harvard. The formation of a Sophomore Club and the decision of the Union and Forum to consolidate are two improvements, and this new method of trial also promises to be beneficial...
This year at the outset of the winter practice, which began directly after Christmas, the chances of success were, to say the least, not hopeful. Of last year's team seven of the best men had left college and of the four remaining, three had had only one season's experience...
...with the settled purpose of making it a help and a spur to instructors and to students in their daily work, and a source of vital influence in University life. The extension of the Library in 1876 and the accession of some important funds strengthened his hands at the outset. His rules of administration, his plans for the remodeling of Gore Hall in 1895, and those for a great future extension, were all studied in the light of his own experience, in the use as well as the custody of books, and to the end of his life his efforts...
...their work: if a class is half-hearted and careless at first, as was the case with last year's freshmen, it will have that reputation to work against for the rest of the season; while if it goes to work with plenty of life at the outset the task is made easier both for the coaches and for the members of the squad. With practically the whole football strength of Nineteen Hundred and One in the class squad there is a double incentive for the men to do well: the hope of being transferred to the 'Varsity squad...