Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...comes the news of the triumph of the Maximalists and the Bolsheviki, the capture of the Winter Palace, and the flight of Kerensky. This is one of the few single events of the war that seems irretrievable, that offers no ray of hope or consolation. Even should Kerensky succeed in rallying the Army to his support and reestablishing a new government in Moscow, it would be impossible to be of active assistance to the Allies with the revolutionary focus at Petrograd outflanking the Russian positions...
Burnham Lewis '20, of Philadelphia, Pa., was unanimously chosen captain of the 1917 informal cross-country team by the squad of runners at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. He was elected to succeed George Anderson King '18, of Washington, D. C., who did not return to college this fall. Lewis has made a remarkable record as a runner in the University; he was captain of the Freshman team last year, and starred by winning every race in which the 1920 team took part, concluding the season with a first place against the Yale Freshman at Belmont in the annual dual meet...
Arnold Horween '20, of Chicago, Ill., was unanimously elected captain of the informal University football team to succeed W. B. Snow '18, at a meeting of the squad held immediately preceding the game Saturday...
...Records Committee by various, though by no means exhaustive channels. Undoubtedly many more additions will be made by the Committee under the direction of F. S. Mead '87, treasurer of the Harvard Club of Boston and one of the directors of the Alumni Association. Mr. Mead will succeed A. Johnson '95, who found it necessary to give up the work which he carried through during the first months of the war. Mr. Mead has also been appointed by the Corporation as editor of the University Directory, and he plans to compile and maintain a list of all living University...
...unnumbered millions of years of fiery and senescent life has the earth known such wastage of human life. From it must come some good, some incomprehensible good to the generations which are to succeed this struggling generation, otherwise there is no reason in existence. As the Reformation was the age of religious idol-shattering and the age of Revolution the age of political idol-shattering, so this, the unnamed but magnificent epoch, is the age of social idol-shattering. So, utterly will they be shattered that not all reaction many restore them; no more than it may restore the very...