Word: fill
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...board of fellows, took his place as presiding officer. Professor Gainwell then presented a resolution to the effect that a committee consisting of the secretary of the corporation, three members of the board of fellows, and five trustees, be appointed to select and recommend a man suitable to fill the office of President of the University This committee is to report at the annual meeting in June...
...meeting of the Harvard Shooting Club was held last evening to take action on the resignation of the secretary, Mr. R. H. Post, '91. It was voted to accept the resignation, and Mr. H. F. Strout, '90, was elected to fill his place. The next meeting of the club will be held Friday afternoon, and it is hoped that more men will be present than there were at the meeting last week. This will be the last chance to enter this month's matches, which need more entries to make them as interesting as they should...
...rather poor, but he is a good catcher, and has played in the in-field on the Exeter nine for two years. Hoyt and Day are the most promising candidates for pitcher. Hoyt pitched a good game against Andover last year, and Day also proved himself competent to fill the box. Heffelfinger stands a good chance for first base, and Trafford for second. The candidates for the team are playing hand-ball a great deal, but they have not gone into strict training yet. The annual game will be played at Exeter this year...
...proposed scheme of a union dinner of the editors of the Advocate, Lampoon, Monthly and CRIMSON is an important and significant innovation. These four publications fill very different places and satisfy very different demands but, after all, their aim is the same. Forming. as they do, the strongest incentive to literary work, they are coming to see that their power in the future must depend largely upon their unity. The apparent rivalry between them has always been more fancied than real. That phase of college journalism by which one paper makes capital by carping at another is past. At Harvard...
...Robinson will probably retain his professorship of moral and intellectual philosophy as well as the Elton professorship of Natural Theology. John L. Lincoln, professor of Latin language and literature, is spoken of as a temporary holder of the presidency, but no one has as yet been decided on to fill the place permanently. Prof. Elisha Benjamin Andrews who left the professorship of history and political economy last year to go to Cornell, is one of the most prominent candidates for the presidency and it is highly probable that he will be called to fill the place. President Robinson was graduated...