Word: starting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...MEASLES must have done a rushing business down at Harvard, otherwise there would not have been much occasion for that enterprising undertaker to start a new coffin-warehouse right opposite the College. Yet the evil is over, but an epidemic worse than measles has broken out. We refer to the baseball and regatta business, which now monopolizes every available corner of the Crimson and Advocate. Why did the measles deal so kindly with Harvard's College editors...
DEAR SIRS, - I trust that I write to you for the last time, having neither the inclination nor the leisure to start a controversy with your boating...
...country grows older, the young men rise into prominence less quickly. Time was when a boy graduated from college at fifteen or sixteen, and had his professional education or a good start in business before he had attained his majority. As college after college springs up, and higher education becomes more general, the number of graduates of the older colleges who become prominent men is proportionally decreased...
...Reading, I know, is often a bore; but it is not difficult to supply its place with the aid of the American one-sidedness of some talkative old specialist. If you want to know something about a legal point, you had better ask a question or two, and start off an amiable lawyer on his profession. If you want some information about art, do the same with an artist. And in general, it will pay to get out of your fellow-beings all the information that they will give you. If you can make other people do your reading...
...start was nearly even, Holyoke being an instant behind the others in taking the water. The crews kept well together to the turning-stake, Weld showing a little ahead on the first half-mile, with Holyoke a little in advance of Matthews. When near the stake, Holyoke and Matthews, who were to turn the same buoy, spurted; Holyoke took Matthews' water and turned first, but with Matthews' bow only a few inches from their rudder. Matthews, however, made a very bad turn, and lost about three lengths. Weld had the outside stake to themselves, but also made a bad turn...