Word: fill
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. C. F. Dunbar has been elected a trustee of Phillips Exeter Academy, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dr. Peabody...
...Merriam, '86, has been elected a regular editor of the CRIMSON, and Mr. E. J. Rich, '87, has been elected managing editor, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of J. A. Frye...
...present we have no reading room at College, this plan would fill that vacancy. And it would do more than this, for it would discourage the aimless reading of anything and everything which is found in a newspaper and would render more possible a connected understanding of the public events about which every student should know something...
...present a needle and thread, admonishing each recipient with these words, "Take this and be thrifty." The custom is one of great antiquity, and has been deemed to have arisen, perhaps without much authority, in a pun on the founder's name. Aiguille is the Erench for needle, and fill for thread, and the two together have certainly some resemblance to Egglesfield, the confessor of Queen Phillipa, who was the founder of the College. Possibly four or five centuries ago the pronunciation may have been more closely assimilated. Quaint ceremonies, such as those mentioned above, are interesting and pretty...
...last May, Goodwin, who won two of the first prizes, has graduated, as have two of the winners of second prizes, Allen and Mandell. Yale and Columbia have their teams of a year ago practically intact, so that to win this year, we must strain every nerve to fill up the vacancies, if we hope to even approach the foremost position. Nothing but long and steady work on the part of every man who has any show at all for the Mott Haven team can save us from an overwhelming defeat at the inter-collegiate games. The management...