Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other significant trend shown in the present report finds English, which has held the lead for the past six years, superseded numerically by Economics. And this is not the first time that Economics has come to the fore; previous to the ascendancy of English the Department of Economics held away during several desultory years. The movement is patently variable and the reasons for the present turn at best only hypothetical. It may be that more students are now concentrating in Economics than in English or any of the sciences because the propensities of the modern Harvard mind tend toward...
English Drops Lead...
...years ago the English Department held a margin of 124 students over the next largest field, Economics. Last year the lead had fallen to 35. Now English has been superseded, there being 23 more concentrators in Economics than in this division of the field of Modern Languages. Economics now counts 417 members against 394 for English...
Factions. At least one voice was raised to urge that Governor Smith take the lead against the Hoover re-election of 1932. Albert S. Burleson of Texas, Wilsonian Postmaster General, said: "Apparently the teachings of Jefferson, Jackson and Wilson have been forgotten by the Southern people." But he was drowned out by a chorus of other voices. Bishop James Cannon Jr., hero of the anti-Smith crusade in Virginia, asked for the resignation of National Chairman Raskob. So did-Georgia's W. D. ("Praying Willie") Upshaw. So did the Georgian (Atlanta), the Observer (Charlotte, N. C.), the Winston-Salem...
Senator Harris of Georgia and a remarkable delegation met the Roosevelt train as it pulled into Atlanta. Senator Harris, the spokesman, said: "We didn't get Governor Smith, but we got you to lead us four years from...