Word: leading
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...match between Chase and Lee was won entirely on its merits. Lee took the lead in the first set; with the score 4 to 1 against him, Chase changed his style of play, returning to Lee's right instead of his left hand. He won the next five games and set. In the third set, Lee played a better game and won by a score of 8 to 6, only, however, to lose the fourth set and the match...
...ancestors. Many ways have been attempted to bring unity into life. The lowest of these is the impulse of selfpreservation, under which the passions balance one another. A different way is to suppress all intellectual and physical life and develop only the moral. Neither of these methods can, however, lead to unity, for this can only be found in divine faith and a life after the teachings of Jesus...
HOWARD ATHENAEUM.- "Lead Lights...
...point out the reason why the crew proved so slow would lead us too deeply into the study of their style of rowing, but in general the cause seems to lie in the failure to profit by the experience of recent years, inasmuch as the whole system of organization and management introduced by Storrow in 1885 was completely disregarded because the crews in the crews in the two succeeding years were defeated. The Yale and Columbia crews of 1886 beat Harvard after close races because they adopted, to a considerable extent, the same system and ideas that Storrow had taught...
...stated intervals, as seven years have gone by, it has been my privilege to lead this service, till today I do so for the last time. I am glad to have the opportunity to say to the gentlemen whom I meet that I have been well aware that they are as interested in the service as I am, and to help along, as we give a torch from hand to hand, the traditions of the service to you who are to sustain it now. The government of the University has entrusted the chapel service to the religious feeling and high...