Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interest or discouragement. this is not the case. The action of the executive committee was taken to carry on more effectively the campaign to win the Republican nomination for Herbert Hoover. Since the straw ballot has shown that Harvard favors Hoover by a two to one majority over the nearest competitor, and since the academic year is drawing to a close, the executive committee decided that the funds and energies of the league would be most usefully employed hereafter on work for the Hoover Republican Club of Cambridge. BHARLES W. ELIOT...
...individual winner of the Twenty-Ninth Interscholastic Tennis Tournament. Phillips Exeter Academy, with a total of 12 points gained in the two days' playing, once more, after a lapse of two years, gained possession of the Interscholastic shield. The New Hampshire school easily led the field, the nearest competitor, Woonsocket High School, scoring 5 points, and Andover and Moses Brown School gaining 4 each. The contest for second place was the closest in years, since the triple tie between Andover, Woonsocket and Moses Brown was only broken by the victory of Ingraham over C. W. Farnham Jr. of Exeter...
...result of the matches already played, Exeter leads the field with 9 points; the nearest rival is Andover with 4. Moses Brown School follows with 3, Newton High School has 2, and Woonsocket, Huntington, and Browne and Nichols have one each. With this lead Exeter, of course, is favored to win, and can only be tied if Moses Brown scores victories in every match which remains to be played...
...first event, the musical stalls, will be a kind of "Going to Jerusalem" affair in which the entrants will ride round a ring of chairs to the tune of the band. When the music stops the men will dismount and rush for the nearest chair. As there will be one less seat on each round than there are men, the man who fails to find a seat will be eliminated...
...result of the vote held yesterday, Henry Hardwick Faxon '21 of Quincy, was elected vice-president of the Union for the coming year. The result was in doubt until the last, when the final count gave Faxon a plurality of 11 votes over his nearest rival, R. M. Sedgwick...