Word: successors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...year eighteen hundred and eighty-five has now yielded to a successor, and the class that was graduated last June now feels itself more completely separated from its alma mater. The lingering year, with its '85, was sort of a thread holding the class to the college; but now that thread has gone, and the '85 man says, "I was graduated last year." But it is different with the senior of '86. He says, at once with pleasure and with regret, "I am graduated this year." Thus the coming of a new year seems somehow to make more...
...will be his successor is the question now agitating the college world. Opinion is by no means concentrated on any one choice. Some are in favor of a businessman, a man whose executive abilities and not his deep learning shall recommend him. Others are in favor of a man of recognized ability as an instructor, and one acquainted with all the most approved educational methods, yet not a man of so-called dangerous conservative ideas; he must not be a clergyman, nor must he be prejudiced against the value of classical training. To satisfy this class the next president must...
President Porter's own ideas of the sort of man for his successor, although he never before publicly expressed them, have been made known by the article published in the current number of the New Englander...
Harvard Union Debate. Sever 11, 7.30 p.m. Question: Resolved "that the rightful successor to President Grant was Samuel J. Tilden. Books of reference reserved in alcove 5 in the library...
...Harvard Union will debate the following question to-night: Resolved, "That Samuel J. Tilden is the rightful successor of Ulysses S. Grant." The principal disputants are: affirmative, H. Solloway, L. S., A. B. Robinson, '87; negative, L. B. Stedman, '87, French McAfee...