Word: lead
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...bespeak for the training camps, the support of every Harvard man. I regard enrolment therein as a solemn duty resting upon all properly qualified men. I especially urge the undergraduate body to take the lead in this movement, so full of hope for the future of America...
...mile and one-half mark saw both crews coming down well with Crew B still in the lead, although the firsts were pulling strong. An eddy just before the finish almost lost the race for Crew B, but the superior drive of these men was too much for such a natural hindrance as an eddy, and University A finished a little more than a length in the rear...
...alike, each according to the best of his ability." College men are needed to serve as officers and the summer camps are their training schools. America is "the home of the brave"; but bravery and ignorance cannot compete with knowledge and the business end of a gun. Harvard today leads in total enlistments and Harvard must continue and increase this lead. It is only through training, obligatory if need be, but serious training at any rate, that the colleges as a whole and Harvard in particular can further the great scheme of keeping America "the land of the free...
...editorial raises an important point about the responsibility of college graduates for the encouragement of a certain type of semi-professionalism in college athletics. Fortunately, the reports of the Chairman of the Athletic Committee lead us to believe that in recent years public opinion has improved in this respect...
...last stretch the second crew was waiting to give the first a brush down-stream, and both crews started off rowing 40 strokes to the minute. The stroke was soon dropped to 36 and then to 38, and at the half-mile University A had a half-length's lead. Upon passing the mile mark both crews again dropped their stroke. There the Freshmen were waiting, and the 1919 shell, starting a length from behind, secured a beautiful start, and in one minute was up to the first crew. The Freshmen soon dropped to 32 strokes to the minute...