Word: successors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...community in which he has moved. Paul Revere Frothingham was the descendent from generations of Harvard men who moulded her fortunes in the days when she was a New England and Boston institution, that is, the days of Emerson. Lowell, and their contemporaries. He was the most brilliant successor of William Ellery Channing, the greatest minister of his time, whose religious doctrines exercised untold influence at Cambridge during the same period. His heritage was the heritage of liberalism...
Meanwhile, anti-Wood tongues in Manila worked out their wrath discussing who would probably be chosen as the Governor General's successor. Mentioned were W. Cameron Forbes, onetime (1909-13) Governor General, and Col. Carmi A. Thompson, personal representative of President Coolidge (TIME, April 12), now on his way to Washington with a bulbous report. It is known that Governor General Wood will leave Manila late in January to go to discuss the Philippines with President Coolidge, but there is scant reason to believe that he intends to resign. His health, which has been poor since an operation...
...Four more minutes were consumed while the Senate met as the Senate to swear in David W. Stewart of Iowa as the successor of the late Senator Albert B. Cummins, and to hear the announcements and condolences of the deaths of Senators Cummins and Bert M. Fernald of Maine...
Amherst. Hinting that he was fatigued with age, George Daniel Olds, 73, President since 1924 of Amherst College, last week resigned. Kindly, gentle, popular, he had several times been acting president of Amherst before, also Dean (1909-22). His election to his definite presidency was as immediate successor to Alexander Meiklejohn, tempestuous radical, who now teaches in the University of Wisconsin...
Tradition is about to be violated on the opposite side of Holyoke Street, where Dunster House and the old Advocate House are to come down, sacrificed on the altar of the tutoring schools. The Manter Hall School, successor to "Widow" Nolen, is to build a new home on will return to the new building, while The Advocate and the Dramatic Club, or phans of the storm, have already moved to Didgely Annex, in the rear of Ridgely Hall...