Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Every year the senior class at Yale casts ballots to decide who are its most important or particularly well qualified members. By vote such men as the following are picked: Best athlete, the man who has done most for Yale, the man most likely to succeed, etc. The New York Times has recently conducted an inquiry to discover to what extent these predictions have been fulfilled, what professions the most gifted graduates have chosen, and how well they have filled the positions offered them. The times continues a follows...
...Ballard's four acts, only the second and last succeed in getting the proper response from the audience; nor is this owing to any lack of situation, for the playwright is blessed with a fertile imagination, but rather to the fact that he has failed to make the best of what he had in hand. The first act, for instance, is talky in the extreme. Before there can be a play the audience must know that the apartment of Mr. George MacFarland, wealthy New Yorker, has been robbed, that he is thoroughly disgusted with the stupidity of the police...
...William Lawrence '71, D.D. Bishop of Massachusetts has been elected a Fellow of the Corporation, to succeed the late Arthur Tracy Cabot '72. Bishop Lawrence has been a member of the Board of Overseers since 1894. He is probably the most prominent ecclesiastical figure in New England, having been since 1893 Bishop of Massachusetts. He has been honored with degrees by Harvard, Yale, Princeton. Hobart, Cambridge, and the Episcopal Theological School, of which he was for a number of years a professor and the dean. He is a historian of note and the author of a number of books, including...
...feel that this system would arouse a spirit of rivalry among the departments and would raise debating to a higher level than it now occupies. Such a plan has been successfully adopted at Yale and other large universities, and there is no evident reason why it should not succeed here. The CRIMSON makes this suggestion to the debating authorities for what it may be worth, fully realizing that for some reason unseen by us, it may be deemed impracticable...
...Alsberg, instructor from 1902-1906 and head of the biological department at the Medical School from 1906 until his resignation in 1908, was recently appointed chief of the Bureau of Chemistry at Washington, to succeed Dr. Harvey W. Wiley. Dr. Alsberg, who is a widely recognized biochemical expert, has been in the Agricultural Department since his resignation here...