Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recent annual meeting of the College entrance Examination Board at Columbia University, Professor Robert N. Corwin, of Yale, was elected chairman of the board to succeed Dean Hurlbut, of the University. Thirty-five American colleges and universities, including Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, Yale and the University, are now associated in the College Entrance Examination Board. The entrance examinations of the University, Yale and Princeton were conducted this year exclusively by the Board, which examined in al more than 10,500 candidates...
...same conception of rights has kept Mr. Hughes from helping us formulate a policy in regard to the European war. The sum total of Mr. Whittlesey's argument is that we would have obtained our pledge from Germany a little sooner under Mr. Hughes, and that we will succeed in "gaining fair treatment from England for our mails and cargoes." Just how, he neglects to state, but since we have already done everything but use force, economic or military, the intimation is that Mr. Hughes will do that! What a cheerful prospect this coercion of England for those...
...must be apologetic to the upper class men. This is entirely wrong. The attitude of a Senior toward the Freshman is one of deepest interest. He realizes that difference of class does not mean a difference in personality. He is interested to meet and know the men who will succeed him in a few years...
...great a number of noted authors as the system of fifty years ago. However, are not these courses in composition and comparative literature giving this mass of men whose minds are filled with commercial, non-literary ideas, an appreciation of the great literary literary productions? IT such courses succeed in doing only this, and fail to develop scores of authors, they still do a great and difficult work. Although authors are valued more highly than literary critics, if a college training can mould the average American undergraduate into merely a literary critic, it is unquestionably successful...
...Deans as their real advisors and helpers. Also, the fact of the Deans being nearer the students own age will help materially in breaking down that imaginative barrier of non-sympathy for the undergraduate's point of view, which unconsciously the younger generation holds. If this new system does succeed in producing a normal relationship between the student in difficulties and his logical helper, the dean, the advantageous results will fully justify the change...