Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Princeton sprang a surprise which nearly brought them victory. A field goal by Murrey and a touchdown by Trimble put them into the lead. 10 to 2, with the game nearly over. In the closing minutes a desperate Harvard rally put Casey over the last line, and Church's goal made the teams deadlocked...
Princeton finally broke the deadlock in 1921. After three scoreless periods, Owen kicked a goal that gave the Crimson the lead, but shortly afterwards Gilroy of Princeton caught a short forward pass and raced 65 yards for a touchdown. Keck added a field real to make the final figures...
...Through the ages the people of China have looked to the class of scholars, the comparatively few educated men, as the main pillar of society. They have followed the lead of these men, and until recent years that lead has always been a conservative one. The scholars always studied alone, and absorbed the old literature and philosophy of the Empire. Naturally they became saturated with the past, and thus reactionary leaders of society...
...Many indefensible features mar their present movement. A very wicket thing is the willingness of the student leaders to excite mob feeling, and exhort them to violence, rather than lead them in the exercise of reason...
William Barksdale Jones of Vaughan, Miss., was chosen vice-president of the class. The contest between Jones and John Watts Jr. was the closest of the election, but the last year's Freshman baseball captain had a comfortable lead over the 1928 crew leader...