Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rene Pinchard has been engaged as fencing coach for next year to succeed Monsieur J. L. Danguy who has resigned because of ill health, it was announced last night by the Harvard Athletic Association. The new coach has been connected with the New York Fencers Club for the past three years, and was one of the American Olympic fencing coaches last summer. Pinchard will assume his duties at the opening of college in September...
...football coaches eyed him approvingly. His, they quickly saw, was the strapping physique to crash through any resistance to victory. Last week Walter William Heffelfinger prepared to present himself to the voters of Minneapolis as a candidate for Congress in the Fifth Minnesota District at a special election to succeed Representative Walter Hughes Newton, resigned. Time had changed the Heffelfinger physique but little. At Yale he had learned how to win. In Minneapolis he was confident of the election results...
Five times has the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania chosen a bishop coadjutor to assist and eventually succeed Pennsylvania's Bishop Thomas James Garland (TIME, May 20). Five times have the chosen refused to accept the position...
...week said that "since . . . the nature of this appointment must be of a wholly indeterminate nature I feel no longer impelled to leave work of assured usefulness to accept the post, honorable as it is." By "indeterminate nature" Dr. Drury meant that he could not tell when he would succeed Bishop Garland, which is the in alienable right of all bishop coadjutors when their bishops retire or die. When he was nominated Dr. Drury wrote to Bishop Garland, asked him when he would retire. The Bishop, who is 62, refused to name a date. He called the Drury question "unparalleled...
Princeton senior, was last week given two titles by vote of his class: "Most likely to succeed," "Third most pious...