Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent professor in an American college is thus honored by the London Spectator. "Professor Sylvester is selected to succeed the late Professor Henry Smith as Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford. Prof. Sylvester is-with perhaps some question as to Professor Cayley-the most brilliant and original mathematician of his time. Nor has the fertility of his genius, it is said, diminished with age, though he is believed to be already seventy. He leaves the Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, where his genius has been greatly valued and born large fruit, at Christmas, and will, we suppose, assume...
...gentlemen in college who understand how to put the shot, none of them have as yet done anything in preparation for this year's events, nor do we know of anyone who has been practicing the pole jump. These events are not easy ones-they need steady application to succeed in them. No one can become a champion in pole jumping by only a few weeks work. The Athletic Association, therefore, we think, should take immediate steps towards our being properly represented in these events next year at the Polo Grounds...
...leading a precarious existence, or are altogether dormant, and they cannot be at once aroused from their lethargy. It is significant, in this connection, that Harvard has been so long without a shooting club: and now that one has been formed at last, it can only be made to succeed by the most careful management. In course of time we may hope that a series of matches may be arranged between college teams, but we must be contented for the present with keeping alive what little interest there is, without endangering the whole project by trying to do too much...
...nine and we thought that by being constantly thrown together they would become better acquainted. This year the nine will probably be composed of nearly the same men, and our argument will not hold good. We think that with good conscientious outside training the nine will succeed fully as well as though they were at a training table...
...undesirable. Certainly they should be used in moderation." For harmless substitutes he suggests "wheat coffee" or "Fry's Cocoa Extract." Milk is recommended most highly as being both food and drink and even if at first it disagrees with some, he says, "perhaps a persistent trial of it would succeed as well as in the case of tobacco." Then follow several good pieces of advice on eating : "Regularity is important. Eat until satisfied, and thus avoid lunches. Let the amount of a meal bear some relation to future needs as well as to present appetite. Light conversation and gentle exercise...