Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Junior class ever seems to succeed in making preliminary arrangements for the Union dance without being put to considerable trouble by the men who will not make applications or do any thing else in this world until the last minute. The class of 1910 has followed this custom excellently and differs only from the classes that have preceded it in being more annoying and less ready to aid the committee than any class within our memory...
Professor Lowell has been chosen as the next President of Harvard University. For a number of years he has been considered in this community as the man most likely to succeed President Eliot. This feeling was based primarily on his effective administration of the various offices he has held here and elsewhere, in which he has shown a sane and comprehensive judgment, admirably equipped for work required of an executive officer...
...hand. In spite of the articles which appear in the magazines from time to time on the condition of affairs in these new dependencies they are probably little understood and appreciated by the average citizen. A long, carefully prepared magazine article though well supplied with pictures will not generally succeed in giving as correct an idea of the situation and at the same time be as interesting as a lecture delivered by a man who knows of what he speaks and is assisted in his explanations by stereopticon views...
...banners are now in his hands for treatment. Owing to the experimental nature of the work, and the press of other business, the affair has progressed very slowly. But the Committee has thought it best to wait two or three years if necessary in hopes that the experiment will succeed, rather than commit itself to the only other alternative, the preservation of the banners between sheets of glass,--an alternative which is expensive, necessitates the taking down of the banners altogether, and may at any moment be proved to have been foolish and unnecessary. It is for the purpose...
...announced last night that Frank H. Hitchcock '91 had been offered and had accepted the position of postmaster general in President-elect Taft's cabinet. This is the first cabinet office to be filled. Mr. Hitchcock will succeed another Harvard graduate, George von L. Meyer...