Word: lead
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...voting was done by states, and in all but one out of five states, Hughes led in number of votes. And in the one state, Connecticut, where Wilson was in the lead, his plurality was only one vote. Omitting Hanley and Benson, the total number of votes cast by men of New Jersey was 298 and of those 151 were for Hughes and 147 for Wilson; by men from New York, a total of 218 votes with 131 for Hughes and 87 for Wilson; by men from Pennsylvania, a total of 190 votes with 108 for Hughes...
...undergraduates of Dartmouth by The Dartmouth, the undergraduate newspaper show that the two bodies were exactly opposed in their opinions of the presidential candidates. The faculty and officers of administration gave Wilson 64 per cent. and Hughes 36 per cent. of their votes, while the undergraduates gave Hughes the lead with 64 per cent to Wilson's 36 per cent. Hughes was supported by the officers of administration, but the faculty members of the departments of social sciences were solid for Wilson. The interest in the straw ballot was not as great as expected, for only about half...
...Wilson, out of a total of 1,989 votes cast. Wilson was elected in the fall of 1912 by the greatest number of votes ever cast for him, 735, to 475 for Roosevelt, and 365 for Taft, out of a total of 1,608. Roosevelt took the lead last spring with 660 votes 519 for Wilson and 348 for Hughes out of a total of 1,736. Yesterday's election was the only one where any candidate secured a majority of votes cast. Hughes received a majority of 662 votes...
...urged that Yale cannot fore go such advantages unless her rivals follow her example, but present practice must, it would seem, lead to still greater lengths of extravagance and absurdity. For this reason it has been felt by your committee that ultimately the suggestion must be seriously considered that in time all payment of salaries to coaches of Yale athletics should cease, and unless Yale can from her own resources, graduate and undergraduate, develop her teams without such artificial stimulants, so that she can reasonably compete with her rivals, it would be best to eliminate intercollegiate athletics altogether until...
...Minot Osgood Simons, minister of the First Unitarian Church, Cleveland, Ohio, will conduct morning prayers in Appleton Chapel this morning at 8.45 o'clock. Rev. John Haynes Holmes, minister of the Church of the Messiah, New York, will lead prayers tomorrow morning...