Word: margin
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshman cross-country team decisively defeated the Yale first-year men by the score of 17 to 46. Captain J. D. Hutchinson '19 won by a large margin in 20 minutes and 4-5 of a second. Three Harvard men followed, the first of whom was E. H. Kelton '19. H. E. Small '19 won third place after a close race with J. M. Greene '19. Tritch came in fifth, scoring first for Yale, and was followed by another Yale runner, but J. B. Hopkins '19 finished seventh, completing Harvard's score. The tenth Harvard man crossed the finish line...
Samuel Walker McCall, Republican, was elected Governor of Massachusetts at the state election yesterday, defeating Governor David I. Walsh by a margin estimated at about 12,000 on the face of incomplete returns...
...Barry for Lieutenant-Governor by a majority estimated at least 40,000. The woman suffrage amendment in Massachusetts went down to defeat by 75,000 or more, the vote being about 2 to 1 against it. Suffrage was also defeated in Pennsylvania and New York state, although the margin was somewhat closer...
...game devoid of the spectacular, and characterized by hard, fast football, Brown went down to a 6 to 0 shut-out at the hands of Syracuse. The margin of superiority was a very small one, and in a large part of the contest Brown seemed to have the upper hand. Wilkinson, the brilliant halfback of the Orange eleven, was in a great measure responsible for his team's victory, for in the long series of rushes which resulted in the long score, he carried the ball on almost every play. In spite of their defeat, the Brown players showed great...
With the election last night of five men from those graduating with distinction, the University chapter has completed its quota of forty members from the class of 1915; and doubtless the Society will as usual receive some criticism for the results. Undeniably on the margin there are some men, with qualifications nearly or even practically as good as the last few men chosen, who yet fail to be elected. This is inevitable, for the line must be drawn somewhere. The prestige of the society and the value of membership in it depend upon restricted numbers. It must also be remembered...