Word: predecessor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Dartmouth has originated a course which the University would do well to duplicate. "Problems in Citizenship" has been formed because of the great popularity of its predecessor, dealing with problems relating to the great war. The new subject has been made compulsory...
...Freshmen candidates, for the latter, unless they feel that the upperclassmen are behind them, cannot be expected to go into the sport with the usual energy. The football team has shown that informal athletics can flourish; it is now absolutely imperative that rowing live up to its gridiron predecessor...
...question of leadership this year is highly important in University affairs. To keep our college life on a normal, peace-time basis we must have hard-working, conscientious officers. Theirs is no easy task; they have as much work to carry on as their predecessor, yet with only half the old number of assistants. So we must get out of our heads the idea that these elections are merely a formality. Good officers and a respected class go hand in hand...
...future we have hopes of seeing real drills done with machine-like accuracy by a regiment as well trained as any in the country. We had a model corps last year; there is no reason that this year's regiment should not come up to the standard of its predecessor...
...comedy by Harry James Smith, cleverly Americanized from Gabriel Dregley's "The Well-Fitting Dress Suit," received an unusually responsive reception at the Hollis Street Theatre last night. Witty from start to finish it is as brilliant exposition of the rise of the man of destiny as its predecessor on the Boston boards a few months ago, "Bunker Bean," was a failure...