Word: successor
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...JOHN FISKE has resigned his position as Assistant Librarian of the College Library, and Mr. Samuel H. Scudder is to be his successor. Mr. Scudder has been for several years connected with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and also with our Scientific School...
...have a marked book before me, and the passages clearly indicate that "the good work was done by different hands, each striving to complete the work of his predecessor and to prevent his successor's receiving mistaken ideas of his capacity, - just as if one ever knew who marked a book. Here are a few of the selected bits marked in the book before...
...everywhere conceded, and indeed it would be hard to give a play under a combination of more favorable circumstances. The class of '77 while in college had a great and well deserved reputation for acting, and '79, in the late performance in Boston, proved to be a worthy successor. A powerful cast was secured by choosing the best actors from these classes, and the songs were a selection of the most popular ones that have been given in the college societies for the last three years. This all accounts to a very great extent for the brilliant success...
WHILE we regret the loss of Professor Baxter, however, we are very much rejoiced at the choice of his successor, Mr. George Riddle, as instructor in elocution. Mr. Riddle, having taught here for five months of last year, does not come among us as a stranger; and there can, therefore, be no uncertainty as to his fitness for the position. The acknowledged success of the Boylston prize declamation last June was mainly owing to his exertions, and we hope that the interest then aroused will continue among the students of all the classes. Certain it is, that if this does...
...nothing whatever in its favor. The exercises at the Tree, however, need additional attractions, and if we can have a bright oration at that time, - and there is every reason to believe we can have such an oration this year, -the rush of former days will have a worthy successor...