Word: lead
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attendance of the male undergraduate academic departments, the most important increases being shown by Princeton, Nebraska, Stanford, and Kansas. The enrollment of undergraduate women also shows a satisfactory general increase; at Cornell and Syracuse the number of undergraduate women is larger than that of the men. Harvard continues to lead in the number of male academic students, being followed by Yale, Princeton, Michigan, Chicago, Wisconsin, Columbia, and Minnesota...
...last year. The graduate schools have experienced an increase of 393 students, Harvard being the only one on the list to show a decrease of any moment. All of the schools of agriculture show a decided gain, the single exception being Minnesota, though this university still remains in the lead so far as attendance is concerned...
...tragedy of the Yard elms is too well known to most of us, but our attention is again called to the trees by a defence of the care taken to preserve them printed in another column. The trees have been sprayed with arsenate of lead for several seasons to protect them from the ravages of the brown-tail and gypsy moths and from the elm beetle, but the presence of the leopard moth was not discovered until last summer. A firm of practical foresters, the head of the Boston park department, and several eminent entomologists were immediately consulted...
...Merrihew beating out Gram by six yards in the last lap, after both had fallen. In the first relay, R.C. Foster '11 ran against E. E. Nelson of the B. A. A., and the former, although the farther from the pole, jumped into the lead, and held it until the last corner, when the two finished on even terms. In the second relay D. P. Danney '12 got away ahead of Bradley and kept a lead of a couple of yards, which he gave to deSelding. Prout overcame this lead, and Gram got away a few yards ahead of Merrihew...
...special 780-yard rice for Harvard men proved to be very evenly contested. S.C. Simons '11 took the lead at the start and held it until the last lap, when W.H. Fernald '12 passed him, with G.W. Ryley '10 and R. Warren '10 closely following. The men finished in this order, the time being...