Word: lead
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Boston Journal of Monday copied from the Advocate the vote taken in the Senior class on Presidential preferences, in which Hayes had a majority, but forgot to insert the vote on Governor, in which Adams took the lead...
...gentleman at large; exercising an authoritative control over everything within the purlieus of the house; reading news-papers and political pamphlets; deciding on the characters and measures of an administration, and dictating the policy of his country. In almost all families of this class the mother and her daughters lead a life of meritorious diligence and economy, while the husband is merely a bond of union and a legal protector of the household. Accordingly he is paid and supported, not for his services, but for his presence..... He is a being creeping along the limits of animated and unanimated existence...
...took their positions on the course in the following order, number one being on the inside: J. Holmes, '79 (1), H. W. Cushing, '77 (2), L. Cushing, '79 (3), C. G. James, '79 (4). On the firing of the pistol they started, and Mr. H. W. Cushing took the lead, followed by Messrs. James, L. Cushing, and Holmes, in the order named. The first quarter was made in 1.27, the men passing the line in the same order as at the start, with the exception that Holmes gained third place; at the half-mile Holmes took the lead, making...
...Dunham, '77, was won by Latham in 11 sec. The final heat, between Latham and Chandler, was postponed until after the next event, which was the half-mile run. The contestants were Messrs. F. Cunningham, L. S., and J. Swift, '79. At the start Swift took the lead and made the quarter in 1.9 1/4 sec., closely followed by Cunningham. During the second quarter the men kept close together until they were a hundred yards from home, when Cunningham slipped and fell, leaving Swift to come in in 2.24 1/4; the time last fall being...
...publish I will begin with one or two mistakes which a glance at any official publication would have remedied at once. In the first editorial the new theatre of Memorial Hall is referred to once as "Sanders's Theatre," and once as the "Theatrum." The first name would lead one to suppose that it was a place of public entertainment, where the performances were presumably of a variety character; the last that the word theatre was unknown in our language, pretty much as campus suggests the idea that its pedantic inventors were ignorant of the good old English yard...