Word: starting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...authorities at Springfield will be asked to do for the Regatta about the same as has always been done at Saratoga. They will be asked to have the course accurately surveyed, and buoyed at start and finish, before the arrival of the crews, and to agree to keep it clear of boats during the race; to build a Grand Stand at the finish, for which the price of admission shall not be more than fifty cents; to furnish a steamer to follow the race, whose speed shall be at least fourteen miles an hour, and which shall be ready...
...proposed change, the desires of the students will hardly affect it; but if, as seems probable, it is only a spiritless revival of a bygone custom, a well signed petition may very probably accomplish its end. We would suggest, then, that students interested in the matter should start a petition for keeping the hours of recitation throughout the year as they at present...
...writer has been a little hasty in stating that five years' experience has shown the failure of "straight away" racing in America. There is hardly enough to be gained by the slight excitement of seeing the start to compensate for the artificiality of a buoyed course, which he thinks necessary for the safety of a "turning race." This mode of racing is inconsistent with the rest of the idea. On the same ground that the race should not be a show, but an honorable struggle for victory, the interest, being undisturbed by "side-shows," should also be concentrated...
...round then." Well, the long and short is, it was cards and whiskey between the conductor, the station-man, Bill the engineer, the fireman, and myself for most of the next forty-eight hours till Thursday noon, when the conductor said we were all ready to start, if we only had another passenger. In the interval of waiting the conductor read an old Mulligan County Gazette, the engineer and fireman played at stick-knife, and I examined the engine. Here are my notes...
...peppermints, a few odd parcels, the usual squalling baby, and a few other indispensables. Of course I was only too happy to help her in any way, i. e. look after her ticket, seat, trunks, parcels, grandson, etc. To cut short, at last the conductor gave us a good start, and we wheezed off at the speed of six miles a week. At about every other telegraph-post, just as the baby was getting tranquillized, the conductor would step into our car and "holler," "Tickets, please. Change cars for - " we could n't hear where, but we surrendered a coupon...