Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...length handicap, finished a half length ahead of the Second University boat, which led the Freshman by three lengths. The time of the Second crew was 10.44. The combination, with its initial advantage, broke fast and was never headed while the Second University rapidly cut down the lead and gave a great demonstration of power...
...special events have been arranged in both of which a small number of nationally known athletes will compete. Carr of Yale, holder of the world's record in the pole vault, will lead a field of three entries in that event. Harrington of the B. A. A. and Libby of Dartmouth being his rivals. A ten mile race is also planned in which four leading American marathoners are entered. Miles and Hanigan of the B. A. A. will fight it out in this race with Michelson of the Cygnet A. C., and Koski of the Finnish-American...
...them of their cultural character. The transference, in some places, of the last two years of the normal four year course to graduate work, leaves only two years for more general study. The attempts of professional departments to see that students entering their courses have had proper previous training lead to pre-medical and pre-engineering courses and deprive even the first two years of college of their cultural attributes. Still another device, the junior college, to all intents and purposes a two year continuance of the high school course, offers students the temptation...
...beaten down, so today it is the dogma of the nursery, that dogma which demands the professorial apron strings, face cloth, and Ivory soap. That dogma has turned undergraduate energy and responsible initiative into the great field described so often by the word collegiate. It has lead to a condition where a certain Southern university, which is still holding its classes in a discarded hotel, is campaigning vigorously for a million dollar stadium. Undergraduates and Faculty-alike have aroused to the danger. The former is demanding, the latter is providing, opportunities for scholastic freedom, initiative, and responsibility. Why quibble, when...
...movies anything can happen. Heroes can be heroic with little or no effort: villains can lead lives unblemished by any redeeming virtues: heroines can get away with murder in fact they often do. In the movies anything can happen so Cecil B. de Mille decided to film the Bible. There were groans at the announcement that the man who wears the nattyist sport shirts in Hollywood and who has the most devoted elique of yes-men ever gathered, and that in a city where yes-men are as thick as section-men in Cambridge, intended to make a cinema version...