Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...month and a half of digging to pass without further annoyance. At the end of August the money available for the first year was exhausted, and the work was accordingly brought to a close. The total amount of time devoted to excavation was nine weeks. Professor Reisner expects to resign his position in Egypt and to begin work again in April...
Gentlemen:--I hereby resign the office of President of Harvard University, the resignation to take effect at your convenience, but not later than May 19th...
Since the Brown game last Friday, the University team has been practicing at Mechanics Hall in order to become familiar with the floor. The team has been considerably handicapped this season by injuries and by the loss of E. L. Burnham '07 who was obliged to resign the position of coach on account of business which called him to the West. H. V. Amberg 1L., centre on last year's team, has taken charge of the work in his place...
...that the service tomorrow will be also an anniversary of her eighty-fifth birthday. She was active in the founding of Radcliffe, and at its incorporation in 1883 became its first president. She held this office until 1899, when the infirmities of age compelled her to resign. She died on June...
Colonel Higginson fought in the Civil War, serving as colonel of the first South Carolina Volunteers until 1863, when he was wounded and forced to resign. Since that time, he has been a member of the Massachusetts Legislature, and has been on the military staff of the Governor of Massachusetts. He has published many well-known books, among which are "Cheerful Yesterdays," "Contemporaries," "Reader's History of American Literature," and "Part of a Man's Life...