Word: predecessor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...freshman football men made a good response last evening to the call for candidates for the eleven. Every class ought to present a larger number of candidates than its predecessor, and ninety-eight has done her duty well in this respect...
...book entitled "The Show at Washington," containing character sketches, pictures and stories of Washington life has been written by L. A. Coolidge. Mr. Coolidge was once an editor of the Harvard Daily Herald, the predecessor of the CRIMSON...
...arrange a meeting between the Harvard and Yale tract athletes to take place at the annual indoor winter meeting of the club. The event to be contested by the two colleges is the mile race, either team to consist of four men, each of whom will relieve his predecessor after a quarter-mile...
...Stone, L. S., the next speaker, opened for the Republicans and occupied himself with refuting the arguments of his predecessor. He stated that the articles on which the tariff was reduced by the bill were almost wholly articles of necessity, while the luxuries of the rich were more highly protected, to raise the prices. Wages, again, had increased, he said, according to the statistics of Mr. Peck of New York, who quoted 90,000 individual cases, as to the prosperity of the country, Mr. Stone showed that the Democratic platform claimed a direct loss, owing to increased mortgages on farms...
...being agitated throughout the country. And there is a good story - a Calabrian story - by Elizabeth Cavazza, who introduced herself so delightfully a month or so ago by a little thing in the Century called 'When Angry, Count a Hundred.' The present story is not as good as its predecessor, but it is good nevertheless. An interesting comparison of the Naulahka and the Wrecker occupies several pages with the result that the Wrecker receives no great praise, while its rival is judged 'one of the happiest and finest jests we have had for a long time.' The other articles...