Word: fill
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...McMaster will continue to act as Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, Professor Burr, who was recently elected to fill that chair, having been induced to remain at the Troy Polytechnic School...
...cannot undertake to set forth in the columns of the Crimson the system of training and rowing which we follow this year. If published, it would fill a small volume. For such a work I am not at present prepared, and anything less, I take it, would be unsatisfactory...
...half the class dissatisfied with the principles on which the other half ran the meeting of the class now recognize, after painful experience, the fact that arguments are of no avail. The next step in the matter will be taken by those who support the officers elect, who will fill the vacant offices from their own ranks. The rest of the class - whether that be a majority or a minority is not now known - will then probably take some independent action...
...RUMOR is abroad that a second meeting of the Senior class may be called some time in the coming week. If such a meeting is held, it is commonly supposed that the class will have to adopt one of the alternatives, - either to merely fill the vacancies which have been made by resignations, or to annul the action of the last meeting in toto, and proceed to a new election...
...society. Nobody will deny that there was an understanding ("implied coalition," if you prefer) between individuals as to whom they would support; and this was only and solely for the purpose of electing those men who, taking into account their ability and surroundings, it was thought could best fill the offices...