Word: leading
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...your services, as in limiting you to a certain amount it was not intended that it should be looked upon as an allowance for your services, but we merely wanted to have a limit on the amount of the expenses of the players so that they would not lead us into extravagant expenses. For them to consider that you and your friends who went to England at the expense of our firm are Professionals, is just about the same as to consider that every College Club player who travels at the expense of his club is a Professional, and that...
...saying that "Mr. Codman's charge of hypocrisy in these matters is most unjust," but Mr. Codman only voices the convictions of many graduates and undergraduates as well as to this one-sided agitation for a dual league. How about that Yale mass meeting which was to follow our lead? We graduates have a profound distrust of Yale in these matters, and we do not like to see our college put in so undignified a light before the world. Moreover, we have watched these matters for years, and we know that on the average Princeton is going...
...match was shot in six rounds, three at each kind of birds. Yale won the choice of birds first and chose the keystones. In the first round Yale secured a lead of one bird and kept it until the third round when Harvard rallied and gained six birds over her opponents. The third round closed the first half with Harvard five birds in the lead. The second half was more spirited and both teams did much better shooting. Yale tried hard to overcome Harvard's lead but without success. The first round was a tie. A gain of two birds...
...FORBES.The Graduate Club will meet this evening at 8 o'clock, at 15 Brattle Sq., suite 8. After the business session which will be important, Mr. J. B. Chittenden, with a paper on Metempsychosis, will lead the discussion of the evening...
...complete the first lap, followed by Williams at some distance. Brown dropped out at the end of the first lap on account of some trouble with his saddle. At the beginning of the second lap Williams passed Sheffield. Bailey and Holmes came in sight. Williams succeeded in keeping the lead until the third lap when Bailey made a good spurt and took the lead which he held to the finish, making the distance in 34 minutes, 46 seconds. On the last lap Barron and Davis passed Williams and kept this position until the home stretch when Williams by a good...