Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...allow a man to compete for two such offices as marshal and chorister, the editor evidently overlooked the fact that in the actual working of the old system, this same fault exists. Did a man defeated for one office, under the old system have a fair chance to succeed as a candidate for any other place? A simple exposition of the working of the old caucus system,- the system that will be in operation if the reform is not adopted,- answers this question, and affords the best argument in favor of the new plan...
Professor James M. Crafts, who has been holding the chair of Organic Chemistry at the Institute of Technology, will succeed the late Genaral Francis A. Walker as president of that institution...
...will offer a promising field for the energy of every one who wishes to help the cause of debating. It is an excellent opportunity for the members of the class of 1900 to show that they have tenacity of purpose, and a capacity for able management. They can succeed if they make up their minds...
...last meeting of the Harvard Memorial Society, Professor Charles Eliot Norton was elected president, to succeed Dr. Justin Winsor...
...real work will now begin at once, and it is hardly necessary to remind the speakers of the weight of their responsibility. To them is entrusted the task of restoring Harvard's debating supremacy, and if they succeed in doing so they will have done a service which can hardly be overestimated...