Word: margin
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...contest a year ago. But the betting odds told another story. They favored Harvard--and logically. For past experience supported the assumption that the Harvard coaches would be able to weld their raw material into an offensive and defensive machine capable of showing a sufficient margin of superiority over Princeton...
Tufts Beaten by Scant Margin...
...number of graduates greater than those of Harvard and Yale combined. As the number of college men permanently or temporarily resident in foreign countries nearly represents the ratio in which their respective institutions are popularly known, one can readily see that Harvard no longer has an international margin due to numbers alone. There are millions of people who have never heard of Harvard. It is to these that the name of the University must be introduced, if the latter is to maintain her lead, for did not Pennsylvania show from her registration books that she draws more students from...
...CRIMSON went to press at 2 o'clock this morning, Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate in yesterday's Presidential election led by a close margin with about 285 electoral votes to 175 for Woodrow Wilson, with 71 still to be heard from. A record number of votes was cast. Already reports from 2,602,459 popular votes for Hughes and 2,353,738 for Wilson have been recorded...
...straw votes taken in the different colleges cannot be fashioned into a prophecy of today's result. Yet the apparent strength of Wilson in the Middle West in borne out by the vote of the colleges in that district. The Eastern universities gave Hughes a comfortable margin with one exception, which is Columbia. The latter contains such a great mass of cosmopolitan and representative students that the closeness of Columbia's straw-vote should be considered more seriously as a forecast of the actual result than the large majorities of other Eastern colleges where obvious influences explain the Hughes victories...