Word: leading
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...afternoon in a close game by the score of 5 to 3. Both teams were in their best form. No score was made in the first three innings but the Bush Leaguers appeared superior from the start and in the fourth inning made the first run and retained the lead throughout the game. The Baby Dolls made a final attempt to catch up in the last two innings. The feature of the game was the pitching of Long for the Bush Leaguers and of Cooper for the Baby Dolls...
...first race Ellis rowed No. 5. At the start all three crews got off well, and Harvard took the lead, rowing about 40 to the minute. Cornell followed, and Pennsylvania was last, being out of the race from the first. About 500 yards from the start Cornell and Harvard were exactly even, but Cornell had a lead of a length when half the distance had been covered. A half-mile from the finish Cornell had increased its lead by half a length, and Pennsylvania was about two lengths behind Harvard. From this point on the second University crew sprinted...
...leading article W. L. Stoddard deals with the present burning--shall we say sizzling?--question in academic and literary circles, the recent discovery by William Stone Booth of acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon systematically embodied in the poems the sonnets and all of the plays usually attributed to William Shakespeare, and elsewhere. He foresees that the acceptance of Mr. Booth's discoveries by, the mathematician and historian will lead to the rewriting of the history of English literature of the period shortly before and after 1600, and to the destruction of the modern Shakespeare myth. Let us hope that...
Brown, who recently held the Yale University team down to two runs, pitched for Andover. He was not up to his best form, however, and in the second inning the Freshmen drew three clean hits, a triple, a double, and a single, scoring two runs. They retained their lead until the sixth inning when Andover secured three runs by timely hits off Babson. Both teams scored again in the ninth. The Freshmen hit better than expected but their fielding was ragged...
...baseball and track mass meeting will be held in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 8.30 o'clock. Coaches L. P. Piper '03 and W. E. Quinn, and Captain W. M. Rand '09 will speak. F. H. Burr '09 will preside and lead the cheering. The meeting will be open to all members of the University whether or not members of the Union...