Word: lead
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...that first secret of fortune in almost all departments of life. The graduates, they declare, even if they keep shops or supervise building yards or manage ranches in Colorado, always try for the biggest things, and see far better than merely experienced men to what their work may lead, and what is the most reasonably probable road to success. Moreover, argue these men, descending into slang, the graduates afloat in the hard work of life "do not go muckers" in anything like the same proportion; do not, when they fail, go under so hopelessly, or take to drink or disreputable...
...when she establishes a nursery for cultivating base-ball talent; when she makes use of players until they have justly earned the sobriquet of "veterans;" when her players stoop so low as to practice any means, however unbecoming gentlemen and unfair, to win a game, then may she easily lead those rivals with whom she quite successfully competes at present and who cry out against...
...chances with Yale. Furthermore, since we have decided to challenge Columbia, let us have all agreements and arrangements placed in writing, so there will occur no repetition of the unfortunate misunderstandings which, in the absence of written articles, can be fastened on no one, and which almost invariably lead to mutual recriminations and hard feeling...
...experiment, but for various reasons had turned his attention to medicine. While in the Law School he had engaged with some friends in publishing a paper, and for the first time saw himself in print. From the printer's type he contracted the disease of author's lead poisoning, which he had never quite got rid of. He began the study of medicine, as most young men do, with a quickened pulse at the sight of the grinning skeletons of the school, and with his cheeks reflecting the whiteness of the hospital sheets-sights which had since become the merest...
...College is reported as offering to the students prizes for care and good taste displayed in arranging rooms. A study of elegance is noticed already, and the traditional confusion of a college room is disappearing. Students who do not shine in the recitation-room now have a chance to lead their class in another direction. The broom is mightier than the lexicon...