Word: predecessor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of the senior class who failed to receive commencement parts formed the society and were considered as able seamen before the mast and were headed by a "Lord High Admiral," or, as he was factiously dubbed, the "Lord High," who was chosen each year by his predecessor in that office, with much naval pomp and circumstance. The newly appointed admiral received his "sailing orders" from the same sourse, and entered into office immediately. He did not command any sailors however, until at the beginning of senior year, when commencement parts were given out, and he held office until after...
...that the class of '87 has equaled, at least, the record of its predecessor in foot-ball, there only remains for it to surpass that of '86 on the diamond. Never have the base-ball prospects of a freshman class been brighter than those of the present freshman class. Excelling its opponent in numbers, athletic facilities, and support, it certainly equals Yale '87 in material and enthusiasm. Among the numerous candidates for a position in the nine, many are already well-known as players of no mean skill; some are prominent from their past records. But the class has opposed...
...earliest New England colonists, whose genealogies have an interest only for their own families, have easily traced their localities and lineage in the mother country, all efforts, and they have been many and earnest, spent upon the subject of my remarks, have wholly failed of rewarding results. Your predecessor in the chair Mr. President, the keen, sagacious and unwearied Mr. Savage, our chief in the labors of research, failed to accomplish in the case of Harvard what he did for so many other of our worthies, We recall the fervor of his utterance here when he spoke...
...sympathy from the shadows of the past: a poetic conceit, but one which has been sadly thwarted by those in charge of placing the windows. According to Mr. Lafarge's design, the figures should turn slightly toward each other, the younger poet as if appealing to his great predecessor. As the windows are now placed, the design is exactly reversed, and the graceful Virgil holding his scroll of verses turns his back upon the blind bard. It is to be hoped that this error will be corrected, as it might be at a small expense and trouble...
...Harvard has as yet succeeded in clearing expenses at the end of any year's publication. From this fact we leave the college to draw its own inferences as to the kind and degree of support which it has given in the past to the HERALD and its predecessor. We mention this in the belief that the fact requires but to be stated to find its remedy at the hands of the college. Harvard at all times requires the best of everything and is disposed to be critical if it does not receive it. The position of editor...