Word: succeed
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Lawrence Conley has been named to succeed William Shevlin as, boxing instructor at the University. Conley was instructor of boxing at Harvard several years ago but resigned in order to manage professional pugilists. In the eventuality of a boxing team, Conley's extensive experience in the fistic world makes him well suited for the position of coach...
...Time was, a few years ago, when only the wealthy and influential man could hope to succeed in a political career. But that is changed, and for the better. Any ambitious young man, with sterling recommendations of character, may win success, and this recognition of the importance of personality in candidates for public office makes the future of politics in this country look the brighter...
...present case are talking to the moon. A man can go from college into teaching and by the sheer force of his personality make himself a successful teacher at a college or a university. It has been done and it is being done. Yet that man will never succeed in reaching the heights he might have attained with a truer knowledge of his subject. One must know a profession in these days of excessive competition to continue long in it or to grow in it. And one of the prerequisites of such knowledge in the case of the university professor...
This year there are only two veterans back. Captain Rawlins and P. M. Lenhart '27 whereon to build a team to succeed last season's national champions. Eight positions on Team A and Team B will be filled by new men. Harvard has won two National Squash championships and three state titles in the last three years. To uphold this record will be the objective of Captain Rawlins' team...
Thomas Nelson Perkins '91, recently chosen President of the Alumni Association, has been elected a Fellow of the University to succeed James Byrne '77, who resigned from the governing board on October 11. The corporation is now composed of President Lowell, Charles F. Adams '88, Treasurer of the College, Dr. Henry P. Walcott '58, Bishop William Lawrence '71, John F. Moors '83, Thomas Nelson Perkins '91, and Charles P. Curtis...