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Anyway that was the start of The Meaning of Meaning, and its definition chapter was to lead Ogden into inventing and working out Basic English. It is a curiously pin-pointed starting-point, a two hour conversation on definitions interrupted by a bats-wing gas-burner...
...with invective. It is the duty of the critic to suggest an alternative. The CRIMSON has just had an election. New men occupy the higher offices. The editors are thus given a fresh start. But I do not mean to emphasize the change of personnel so much as the psychological advantage which is to be gained from the new elections. They provide a new starting-point; they are a jumping-off point. They enable the editors to climb upon a mountain-top and survey the scene; to breathe fresh, clean...
...eights and four-oars and the Freshman eights will be rowed at New London on Thursday, June 29. The first race, between the University four-oars, will be held in the morning at 10.30 o'clock. It will be rowed downstream over a two-mile course, commencing at the starting-point of the four-mile course and finishing at the Navy Yard. The Freshman race will be rowed as soon as possible after the four-oar race, starting at the Navy Yard and finishing at the railroad bridge. The University crew race will be rowed upstream at 4.30 o'clock...
Cornell won the toss, and chose the inside position. At four o'clock she pulled to the starting-point, and a few minutes later Harvard took her place. At 4:16 the word was given, the inside crew getting the word first and the advantage at the start. Cornell was pulling forty strokes to the minute, Harvard thirty-six. When a half-mile was finished Cornell was a little in advance, which lead was increased until a mile and a third, when half a length of open water separated the two boats. At a mile and three quarters, Brandegee increased...
...decisions were made. Among them these are the most important: that each boat shall start from an anchored boat; if the race is postponed from the time appointed, it shall take place the next pleasant afternoon; that a single scull race shall be held, open to men of all colleges in the Association, provided three entries be made before June 20. The selection of a Referee was left to a committee consisting of McClellan, Oakes, and Hartwell, which will report in July. A new starting-point was settled upon at a point one fourth of a mile below...