Word: filled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...immense"; and the difficult transitions from boasting to cringing and back again he managed with a fine skill of reality. He played to the point of delight a part which demands very much versatility. Mr. Spelman's Bess Bridges quite exhausts praise. I do not remember seeing another man fill a woman's part so sufficiently. At times Bess was genuinely and girlishly charming, to the point of complete illusion; yet never over-feminine. She was most interesting, perhaps, in her masculine disguise,--very like a man, yet the same feminine Bess. The part is long, and in its changefulness...
...Harvard, also, lacrosse should receive adequate support. For in the last three years the University team has twice won the intercollegiate championship and tied for it in the intervening year. As less than half of last year's team are now available, new men must be developed to fill their places. Only by a large number of candidates may the team hope to maintain the standard of the last three years...
Coach Donovan came from Worcester Academy on September 1, 1906, to take the place of John McMasters, former trainer of the University teams, and in July of 1908 he was made coach of the track team to fill Lathrop's place. Since that time he has coached candidates for the track team with notable success, and for several years has also acted as trainer for the University football teams...
Since the Cornell game, several shifts have been made in the line-up in an attempt to fill the vacancy caused by the injury to Captain Hornblower. Yesterday afternoon the team had a short practice with the line-up which will start the game this evening. Huntington will fill Hornblower's place at right centre and Childs will replace Pierce, who has been substituting for Leslie. Foster, who has been playing a strong game at point, will start at coverpoint and Blackall will fill his place at point. Chadwick, Seamans, and Duncan will be at their original positions...
...average undergraduate apparently does not realize that the Degree with Distinction was created by the Faculty with a definite purpose and not merely as an additional ornament to an ordinary degree. It was established in the hope of arousing an effective desire for high-standard scholarship, and to fill the place of the "honors" in English universities, where the importance attached to distinguished intellectual attainment is very great. There high honors are always remembered and constantly referred to throughout a man's life. Referring to this, President Lowell said: "It is that spirit which must be cultivated here...