Word: closest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...largest number of entries was in the hundred yards dash. Eleven men competed. The smallest was two, in the mile walk and the quarter mile run. The closest race was the hundred yards final, when McCarthy beat Denholm by one foot in 11 sec. In the quarter mile Blakemore finished close to Mansfield, and Southwick not far behind R. R. Hollister in the mile, though the time was much slower than what both men could have done, only...
...extend our heartiest good wishes to the nine for the success in the first of the series with Yale. Though a close struggle is looked for, the closest perhaps in years, the University as a whole has confidence in its representatives and believes in their final victory. We are glad to see that responsible persons have been appointed to take charge of the cheering. Not in any way should the University again be placed in a position which allows unpleasant reflections on the spirit which governs us. That the game may be a most propitious forerunner of the festivites...
...sermon was a powerful appeal. The preacher made no attempt to deliver a polished oration; he made all in the audience feel that he had something of highest importance to make clear to them, and he held his hearers in closest attention. The address was full of rugged strength; it brought home specific points with telling effect, and bespoke the hearty, honest nature of the man who delivered...
...Lyman and Hart of Yale. Hart won first easily in 17 2-5 sec., with Lyman second. The second heat which was much closer was won by Shead in 17 sec. with Cady of Yale second. The final heat between Lyman, Hart, Cady and Shead was one of the closest races of the day. Shead and Lyman came down the track side by side, took the last hurdle together, and only by a very small margin on the final spurt did Lyman come in ahead. Hart was third. Time...
Boylston Hall was filled to overflowing last evening by an audience composed wholly of students. For an hour Professor Drummond held their closest attention; his words were simple, even informal, the thoughts to which he gave expression were familiar, and if spoken by an ordinary man would have seemed trite and commonplace. Yet the strong intellectualism, the broad tolerance, the ready wit, and above all, the sincerity, earnestness, straightforwardness and manliness of the speaker gave to his words a penetrating significance that makes his address one of the most powerful, as it was one of the most remarkable, to which...