Word: outset
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...from appearing in a newspaper shape like the publications of some college alumni, its attractive magazine appearance appeals at once to the interest and the taste of the reader. Upon the whole the magazine is doubly welcome and we feel confident that its success is stamped from the outset...
...either only well to do or have to work their way through college. We are no longer, as we were at one time accused of being, a college for the rich. We are reaching the other class of men, earnest and determined, but in moderate circumstances, and at the outset we present them with the great difficulty of finding rooms and finding those high priced...
...very outset it should be said that a very large majority of the men in college approve of the faculty regulation which lays restrictions on men who have neglected their college work. We recognize its justice, and take pride in the fact that Harvard stands as a leader in this matter as in all others. At the same time there is a feeling that the very uniqueness of our position may lead to such action in the present instance as would not be taken under different conditions. From the fact that Harvard stands as a leader it is very easy...
This ended the scoring. On the whole '93's work was poor, especially in defense. They tackled high, allowing men to gain yards who should have been thrown at the very outset, and centre men rarely got row enough at any time...
...there hope of anything better, while the present arrangement lasts? Waiving all question as to the average quality of the words and music produced, there seems to be an inseparable difficulty at the outset: men cannot find time to attend the rehearsals. The natural consequence was well illustrated by my own class. It is within bounds to say that half of us had never looked at the song before we were huddled together, hot and excited, to flounder through it at sight. Moreover, even were the difficulty overcome - even if every senior had learned his part and sang - there...