Word: lead
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...would like to wager something that, when the "flag drops at the half" on the race-track of life some twenty years hence, Smudge, in spite of the amount of weight he must carry in his shoes, in spite of his ungainly gait, and in spite of the lead and better position Augustus had at the start, - in spite of all these, - will be more than even with him, and I should not wonder if Augustus were "nowhere" on the home-stretch...
...only person in whom hypocrisy has been discovered. As the students are hypocrites in their relations to the Faculty, so are the members of that august body hypocrites in their relations to the overseers and examiners. To such a painful conclusion does the discovery of the Lampoon lead us. To disprove this final result of the charge would require knowledge of proceedings to which ordinary mortals are not admitted. I must leave, therefore, the implied statement that "about half" of the Faculty are hypocrites "to a more or less extent," to be disproved by some one who lays claim...
...meetings of the Athletic Association which have taken place for the last three weeks in the Gymnasium will probably be discontinued for the rest of this year. It is to be hoped that their success will lead to their being established again next winter...
Such an action would be particularly appropriate in this year of the Centennial; it would be an action, too, becoming an institution of learning, which ought to lead the way towards advancement and right, and most of all becoming Harvard, the Alma Mater of Sumner, who was the first to feel and impress on the country the duty of reconciliation with the South...
...only college or would-be academy of the Protestants in all America; but we found ourselves mistaken. In approaching the house we neither heard nor saw anything mentionable; but going to the other side of the building we heard noise enough in an upper room to lead my comrade to suppose they were engaged in disputation. We entered and went up stairs, where a person met us and requested us to walk in, which we did. We found there eight or ten young fellows sitting around, smoking tobacco, with the smoke of which the room was so full that...