Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Commencement exercises recommended the following: 1. That on the Sunday preceding Commencement, a Baccalaureate Sermon should be delivered by some prominent Divine. 2. That to the most popular of the lower classes a slight but significant gift should be presented on Class Day. 3. That an informal dance should succeed the Class Day exercises. 4. That in case the Valedictory were omitted from the Commencement exercises, it should take the place of the Class Day oration. 5. That Class Day, as well as Commencement speakers, should wear gowns...
...President White, of Cornell, has been chosen to succeed Prof. Asa Gray as a regent of the Smithsonian Institute...
...early part of April, when he will look after both the freshman crew and the 'Varsity. The freshmen hope to come in ahead in the class races, and it is whispered they are by no means despondent of leaving the Harvard freshman crew in the rear, if they succeed in making arrangements for a race with them...
...live down this bad reputation by conducting ourselves properly as students and as graduates, and by spreading a know ledge of the true state of things whenever there is a chance. This way is already being taken, and we may be confident that we shall yet succeed completely...
Prof. S. C. Langley, who received his early training at the Harvard Observatory, has been elected to succeed the late Prof. Baird as secretary of the Smithsonian Institute...