Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...committee to investigate the plans proposed. The opinion expressed by the speakers at the meeting was unanimous, that whatever plan is ultimately adopted at Harvard not only is the general principle of physical training as closely connected with mental efficiency, an enlightened one, but also that those who succeed in increasing the general health of their bodies as well as that of their minds, should receive credit...
...regrettable that so many college writers try to be merely clever and so waste their power. An instance of this in the present number of the Advocate is "Three Dialogues and a Monologue." It does succeed in being clever. It concerns a young man and a young woman who understand each other well enough to be in a delightful relation of good fellowship, which makes their dialogue amusing and very readable...
John Baird, Princeton's fullback, who was chosen captain for next year after the Yale game has resigned owing to ill health and Addison J. Kelley, who has played right halfback for three years, has been chosen to succeed...
...editors of the Lampoon last evening elected the following '99 officers to succeed those of the retiring board...
...generally labelled "Representative Ticket"; it does represent an immense amount of intersociety diplomacy, but at least two thirds of the class have had no voice in arranging it. The pledge supporters of the slate generally constitute a majority of those present at the average class election and consequently succeed in putting through the slate although they number but a third of the whole class. Now, while a man might nominally compete for a place for which he was not slated, actually he has no chance for success, because many of his best friends would be pledged against him. Such...