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Jackson, Keefer, considered by many the best ball carrier that Brown has ever produced, and already being mentioned for All-American honors by the eastern sporting press, has scored a fifth of his team's tallies this year and, with 31 points to his credit, leads his nearest Bear rivals by more than ten points...
Conservative chests puffed out for but a little while however. When all the returns were in, the election was found to have ended in the nearest approach to a deadlock in the history of the Dominion. The final results...
Harvard has no back who can compare with Slagle, brilliant Tiger carrier who led the Nassau attack in the Stadium last year. Crosby, scrappy Crimson Sophomore, is the nearest approach to Slagle in the Crimson backfield: each is a shifty runner and each weighs 158 pounds. Slagle, however, is a fine forward, passer, and Captain Cheek is met by a worthy rival in this feature of the game...
...Neil, the regular Democratic nominee, might give him a close run. But the Irish vote was badly split, while Cook and McGauley and Burrill, Republicans running to take votes from Nichols, received almost no support at the polls Mr. Nichols received 64,484 votes, with Glynn, his nearest opponent, gathering only 42,696 votes...
Malcolm E. Nichols '99 was leading the Boston mayoralty race at a late hour last night. He had an insecure margin over his nearest opponents, Glynn and O'Neil. Thomas C. O'Brien '08, the only Harvard graduate except Nichols among the ten candidates, was trailing...