Word: predecessor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...past years the Freshmen will be expected to contribute to the Senior Class Fund. Each succeeding Freshman class for the last five or six years has given a larger sum than its predecessor until last year the Seniors gathered $150 in the baskets provided for the purpose. 1916 come well supplied...
...Garfield then turned to discuss the relations between Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Taft. The policies overwhelmingly approved by the people in the election of 1908 were those of Roosevelt and the Progressives, conservation, corporation control, and tariff reduction. In each of these Taft has failed to carry on his predecessor's policy or to fulfill the promises of himself or of the Republican party. He has taken reactionaries as political advisers and has misused his executive power, as he afterwards admitted, by not heeding the recommendations of appointment made by progressive Senators...
After twenty-six years, we are informed from an authoritative source that before long Sever 11 will be thoroughly remodeled. If the unintentional mirth that must have resulted from the remarks of our respected predecessor in office, on the occasion in question, deserved an consideration, surely our penance, as undergraduates, for the sin committed by our weak brother in 1885 has been long and severe. But from the very harshness of our treatment we are made the gainers, for the delight of taking the first painless notes in Sever 11 has fallen...
...more frequent. Exactly how the open plays should be modified is difficult to determine. An increase in the distance between goal-posts would make field-goals more easily secured and might prove an advisable change. The present semi-open game is universally acknowledged to be an improvement on its predecessor and if more changes in the rules are to come they should be steps in the same direction...
When the new admission regulations were passed last winter it was authoritatively stated that they would result in no general "letting down the bars." The fact that the Freshman class this year is 78 larger than its predecessor, however, might lead to the belief that in spite of all claims, the alternative requirements must be an easier system of admission than...