Word: successors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some years ago the deaconess in this parish told me she had 400 poor families to visit. Last year her successor informed me there were not 20 families in the parish that needed help. . . . In other words, the Church of the Ascension is in a more fortunate position for future strength and influence than it was 30 years...
Other schools, other ways. Other Headmasters attain their ends by other means. At Taft School is the Rev. Arthur Howe, famed Hotchkiss and Yale football star, who, were he not already bound to Taft, would be a likely successor to Dr. Buehler. Howe's method is one of personal comradeship with the boys. In this he follows his chief-Horace D. Taft (brother of "Bill" and "Charlie"). Headmaster Taft is, after the Hotchkiss manner, called the King, but his authority rests on a Garibaldian affection rather than on a Cavourian dominance. The head of Groton is Dr. Peabody. "The Rector...
Coolidge. Thanksgiving that Calvin Coolidge is a fully-equipped successor, justifies faith and confidence, places public welfare above personal considerations, has integrity, vision, single-minded devotion to the public needs...
...whole, the majority of captaincies seem to have gone to sprinters, hurdlers, and middle distance manners. J. F. Brown '22, who lead the University team his Senior year, was the first weight man to be elected to that position, and Dunker, in 1925, will be his first successor...
...survivors of the Victorian age will take kindly to this verse and to the couplet of which it is a part, or will regard a line of twenty-one words and thirty syllables (yoked by rhyme to a line of three words and six syllables) as a satisfactory successor of the traditional Alexandrine or septenary. Yet modern poets must make their own experiments, however daring; and Mr. Auslander's experiments in metre are relatively temperate. In days in which whole paragraphs of prose are accepted as single lines of poetry, Mr. Auslander is conspicuously chary of what have been called...