Word: fill
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There will an be election of a director in the board of directors of the Dining Association, to fill the place of Mr. C. H. Atkinson, '85, resigned, on Tuesday evening, October 31, at the dinner hour. Members of the class may hand in nominations to the auditor before Monday evening...
This afternoon, if the present weather hold off, we shall have a proof of the muscle of '86. "From so large a class," as every one has said before, we may confidently expect the average number of candidates for the crews and nines, as well as new-comers to fill up the vacancies and to better the records of past years. Rumors are so unsatisfactory, that we feel much relieved that at length an opportunity is offered the freshmen to show us who and what they are, and in the future we shall be able to build our expectations upon...
...August, Mr. Fred Balch, the head waiter, engaged a sufficient number of good waiters, whom he knew, to fill the hall as it had heretofore been filled. But two causes conspired to make him short of waiters when October came, and so forced him to engage new men whom he knew nothing about, and who therefore, some of them, naturally turned out to be incompetent. In the first place, the proprietors of Young's Hotel, which has this summer been enlarged, hired some forty men waiters; and as they pay much higher wages than Memorial can afford to pay, they...
...Advocate's wholesale abuse of the steward is entirely uncalled for. The corporation would have dismissed Mr. Balch long ago if they had not known that they could get no better man to fill his place...
...engaged particularly in field sports, and shall be a regular part of the college, not hired by separate men. By a thorough investigation of these particular branches of athletics he will be much better prepared, it is said, than a regular trainer, whose place he will amply fill, but with a more theoretical understanding of his department. If this plan is carried, as we firmly believe it will be in the near future, we shall be much better off than formerly, and instead of giving way to the least doubt, our athletes can settle down to a thorough winter...