Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...play did not win the admiration it deserved, "Athalie," in fact was far ahead of its time, it was written for posterity. The protagonist never appears. The real hero is never seen, for that hero is Jehovah the God of the Hebrews working through the agency of the High Priest...
...three crews were even until the last few strokes, when Bancroft's boat spurted ahead four feet. Harding's crew came in second, with Hodges's six feet behind. The time was 5 minutes fiat...
GENTLEMEN:- No Harvard man who has in recent years attended a Princeton game and heard Princeton's slogan of victory, "Palms of Victory, Crowns of Glory," etc., when the team gets ahead can have failed to be impressed, and to wish that we had a slogan. The special songs which are gotten up for the different games are all right, but it seems a pity that we have no slogan which can be used at any and all games. With a view to stimulating some one to produce a slogan which is really good, I venture to suggest...
...Harvard Bridge. Savage's crew drew the inside position next the wall; Marsh's was in number two, Hawes's in three, and Morrill's on the outside. The barge stroked by Hawes 1900, started off first and held the lead the whole way, crossing the line a length ahead of Morrill's crew. The time of the race was 7 minutes 56 seconds...
...subject, succeeded in bringing it before a great number of the alumni; but the financial state of the country made it inadvisable then to attempt to raise the large sum which will be required. Now that money conditions are more favorable, it may soon be time to go ahead: but what is needed first is to bring the project straight home to all the graduates. It occurs to me that this can best be done by the students themselves. If a majority of the 3000 men in Cambridge on going to their homes during the Christmas recess tell their friends...