Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...clock. The campaign will be outlined for the competition, which will last but one week. The committee will be organized on a competitive basis; those men who are most successful in canvassing the class will be appointed sub-chairmen, and the leading contestant will be made chairman to succeed J. A. Sessions '21, who is at present chairman ex officio. At the end of the competition, the direction of the committee will be put in the hands of these chairmen...
Bernard Jonathan Mattuck '18, of Brooklyn, N. Y., chorister of the Senior Class, has been appointed leader of the University Glee Club. He will succeed M. A. Shattuck '19, who has left College to enter the Cadet School of the First Naval District...
...account of absence for military service in France for the duration of the war, Robert Bacon '80 has resigned as a member of the University Corporation. John F. Moors has been elected to succeed him. Mr. Moors is a graduate of the Class of 1883. He received an A. M. degree in 1884 and an Honorary LL.D. by the University in 1915. He is well known in Boston on account of his devotion to public service for a long period of time and in many capacities. He is president of the Associated Charities, director of the Workingmen's Loan Association...
When the University Reserve Officers' Training Corps sent its delegation to the second Federal camp at Plattsburg last August, there were not a few in Cambridge who knew that these men would succeed. Such a view was founded on the best of reasons--the instruction here had been excellent and these men had worked. Many of them had been competing for the chosen places at Plattsburg since last April, for at the time of the first camp they were too young to enter. They spent hard months at Cambridge and hard weeks at Barre with a serious purpose, and when...
...these, the Lokal Anzeiger, actually attempts to portray it as a moral victory for the Germans. "The British attempt to break through," it writes, "collapsed entirely in the face of the extraordinary bravery of our troops. It went no farther than the initial success. . . . . The enemy will not succeed by this abortive attack in diverting our attention from Flanders, where he is certain to renew his efforts." In other words, the public is made to believe that it was only a successful local attack which entirely failed in its broader strategic aim of forcing the Germans to transfer...