Word: fill
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Professor E. Root has been elected to fill the chair of Natural Philosophy made vacant by the death of Professor Snell...
...work corresponds to that of an historian collecting the materials for volumes upon which his fame is to rest. The man who has this course may have two others upon which he must do hard work; then, by the regulation of the Faculty, he must take something else to fill up his time! This is a regulation that seems to me unnecessary. I do not propose that Seniors should have three courses instead of four required of them. Some number must be prescribed, and perhaps, in most cases, four is none too many. But the regulation should be made elastic...
...Lindsey, a graduate of Harvard, and of the Paris School of Arts, has been appointed to fill the new chair of Architecture and Applied Arts...
...quite a handsome sum. Last year a man could have been procured for the same remuneration, who had large experience in catering for hotels, and who could bring recommendations from Parker. In these hard times there would probably be no difficulty in finding a good professional caterer to fill the position on the same terms as at present. We could at least get a man whose acquaintance with the business had been formed elsewhere than in a corner grocery...
...over the clubs; a man will take more trouble to sustain the good reputation of his class crew, - a crew with whom he has associated and trained, - than to row in a boat with men he has never pulled with before, and work for a club that can barely fill...