Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...William L. Richardson has been appointed Dean of the Harvard Medical School to succeed Dr. Bowditch. Dr. Bowditch has held the office for ten years and now wishes to give it up in order to have more time for his work in physiology. Dr. Richardson graduated from Harvard in 1864 and from the Medical School in 1867. In 1882 he was appointed assistant professor, and in 1886 professor of obstetrics...
...other words, Yale has the inside track. It is therefore necessary not only that Harvard should have an eleven slightly better than Yale's, but that she should have one considerably better. That she will succeed in producing not only one such eleven, but many such elevens in the future, no true Harvard man will allow himself to doubt...
...point of view. If sometimes a man is advanced enough to throw off his old ideas and to see that all men are equal, he thinks that he has made a great step and that he is far ahead of other people. Really all he has done is to succeed in coming back to the natural state of things. He looks at the idea of universal brotherhood as the crown of his civilization but it is the base of all true civilization. Our ways of teaching are to blame for the wrong ideas that we have of the distinctions between...
...succeed Bishop Lawrence as dean the trustees of the Theological School have chosen the Rev. Geo. Hodges, rector of Calvary Church, Pittsburg...
...twenty yards. Here he began to weaken and Endicott and Wight who had been keeping close together gradually drew up on him. On the last lap they passed him. Wight then had the pole and was slightly in the lead; Endicott tried repeatedly to pass him but did not succeed until the last curve when he made a final spurt and won by a few feet. Just at the finish Bardeen overtook S. H. Bunnell who fell so that the judges called the third place a tie. This point was counted for Harvard as Bunnell declined to walk another mile...