Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...start both first and second crews began to gain quickly on the third, and at the half mile had gained a length. At Harvard Bridge the second had gone into first place, a little open water showing between it and the third which was half a length ahead of the first. For the next half mile the third made a good spurt, holding the University eight and gaining slightly on the second. At the last quarter mile the first crew attempted to spurt, passing the third, but was unable to gain on the second, which finished a length...
...will be opposed to a line out-weighing them a few pounds to the man, and a backfield composed of the hardest kind of line plungers. It will probably fall to them almost entirely to stop the Brown offence, since they have shown little beside the straight ahead game so far this year...
...Harvard backfield, on the contrary, enter the game, according to previous showing far ahead of their opponents. Captain Wendell has recovered sufficiently from the injury to his head to play at fullback and with Brickley and Hardwick should prove well high impossible to stop, especially on plunges through the left side of the line where Brown has only inexperienced men. With Langdon and Ashbaugh at the ends, Felton and Coolidge will probably find their hands full, as Ashbaugh has always been strong in that position and Langdon played a remarkably hard and fast game against Pennsylvania...
When the older colleges were established, boys who expected to be the business men of the community rarely gave much thought to "higher education." That was for the "learned professions," most often, in the early days, the ministry. It is only of recent years that men with business careers ahead of them have taken advantage of college opportunities...
Representative Murphy said that the college man can aid greatly in their own districts of the country in bringing the United States through the present period of world-wide reformation and change far ahead of its condition at any time previous...