Word: leade
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...three yards ahead Boyer took Sterritt's place and Eaton touched Marshall, who was slow in getting off. Marshall succeeded in making up the lost ground and finished almost equal with his opponent. In the third relay Harrison of Pennsylvania and Williams of Harvard started out, the Pennsylvania man leading by a yard. Williams passed Harrison in the last lap and finished five yards ahead. The last relay was between Hollister of Harvard and Sichel of Pennsylvania. Hollister increased his lead to ten yards, winning handily amid much enthusiasm...
...could be sent from any of the American colleges, and as such its contest with English college crews would be watched with very great interest by Americans generally. It is apparently hoped by the Yale authorities that the meeting of college crews from both sides of the water will lead the way in a subsequent year to a race with one of the two great English university crews. There is no question that if this could ever be brought about it would be an event of the greatest interest. Whether on the whole such an international race would...
...decision to enter the Henley regatta which takes place in the second week of July. this decision will not bring about so noticeable a boating feature as a race with one of the English universities would have done, but it is the best substitute and it is hoped will lead to an international university contest in some future year. Mr. Cook has been in town for several days, leaving Saturday evening, and has worked diligently with the candidates. He has a very good knowledge of the Henley course and of English strokes, and it is his purpose not to change...
...candidates in the 440 yards run. Burke, the champion quarter-mile runner was too heavily handicapped to do himself justice. About twelve men started in the final heat and for the first lap they were closely bunched; then Powers of St. Paul's S. A. A. took the lead and won by a narrow margin. Blakemore of Harvard came in third...
...have this year a grave responsibility. Success to them means more than it has meant before. It means not the mere maintenance of a position already won, but the restoration to Harvard of her old-time prominence. All lovers of the college long to see Harvard again in the lead in athletics as in intellectual pursuits. If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well; and for Harvard well must always mean better than any other college. For her there should be no excellence but the hightest...