Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...teaching pursued in English VII, the method has only shown the weakness of the course as a successful literary view of a century of great writers. Had the lecture system which was so successfully pursued during the first half year been continued, the courses, even then, could only have succeeded in as far as any course with but one meeting could succeed in covering the literary work of a period beginning with Dryden and ending with Burns. Last year a complaint was made against the work of English VIII. It was said that in the work of the course many...
Prof. Edward J. Phelps, who has just been appointed minister to England, to succeed James Russell Lowell, was enthusiastically serenaded by Yale students Saturday night. Prof. Phelps appeared and thanked the students for the compliment they had paid him, after which a hugh bonfire was kindled on the campus...
Attorney-General George Gray, of Delaware, who is to succeed Senator Bayard in the Senate, is a graduate of Princeton and of the Harvard Law School...
...congratulated on having a faculty so broad minded as to recognize the fact that students are not boys, to be trusted only within range of the proctor's eye, but men, capable of governing themselves, and of exercising surveillance over the few unruly school boys, who, by some accident, succeed in entering college...
...possible. Thursday. Return to Glasgow. See High Church. and particularly the paintings, and put half a crown into the box at the door. Friday. Come back in the fly. N. B. You are to keep and exact account of your charges." The energy with which these short sentences succeed one another show how much Boswell was moved. And yet, he did not quite lose his head. "Study the mother," he says impressively, and "Keep an exact account of your charges...