Word: successors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atwood came to the University in 1913 as successor to Professor William Morris Davis '69, and is at present in the West in charge of a field expedition for the United States Geographical Survey, with which he has been connected during the past 20 years. In the R. O. T. C. at the University he held the position of captain. Dr. Atwood is a graduate of the University of Chicago, on whose staff he served from 1899 until...
...humblest farmer, the worker in the mill and factory, as well as the professional men, all have rallied to his support. His home state, California, has spoken emphatically in his favor. Michigan, a great Roosevelt state, and the birthplace of the Republican party, has recognized him as the successor of Col. Roosevelt. His victories in Nebraska and Montana, and his remarkable showing in New Jersey and Indiana, have astonished the politicians and have set them speculating about the causes of the success of Senator Johnson, who, in the opinion of the "New York World," a former Hoover paper, has "become...
...history of Cuba and the Canal Zone, was a marked feature of his administration. In 1899 Harvard conferred on him at 38 the degree of LL.D. Lord Cramer, when asked to suggest someone to succeed him as viceroy of Egypt said that the only man who could be his successor was not an Englishman but an American--Leonard Wood...
Unless his successor is equally capable of achieving the leadership of the country by force of ability, character and conviction there will be no leadership, and throughout the period of reconstruction we shall have nothing better than an imitation Government manipulated by the managing politicians of the party that happens to carry the elections...
...announcement has been made by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that no temporary successor to the late President Maclaurin is to be named and that the presidency of that organization is to remain vacant indefinitely. Instead, the functions of the office are to be carried on by an administrative committee of three from the faculty, this committee to have the co-operation of a special committee of three members of the executive board of the corporation...