Word: successors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Members will please take the name of J. G. Green, shoe dealer, from the list of tradesmen. No successor...
Donald G. Mitchell, the author of "Reveries of a Bachelor," is suggested by one of the Yale papers as the successor to Professor Northrop in the chair of Belles Lettres...
...view of the little demand for such instruction in this country, and of the difficulty of finding a worthy successor to the chair, we suppose that its abandonment can not but be considered wise. Still we cannot but cherish the hope that this abandonment is but a temporary one. A university which claims to hold the highest place among the educational institutions of the country as does Harvard, is the one university to which students in special branches must look for instruction. At present the demand for this instruction is but slight, but that it is increasing is shown...
...world, expeditions were sent to far-away countries, and the depths of the sea were investigated. The ingenious investigator, who was always full of new ideas, had neither time nor patience for the sifting and arrangement of the extremely rich material: his son and successor undertook this task. As an administrator, Alexander Agassiz may be equaled only by a few; as a naturalist, he belongs, as his father did, to the first names of America. A large fortune makes it also possible for him to promote the interests of the museum financially. To him it must be attributed, that...
...Edward N. Whittier, who was last week appointed visiting physician of the Massachusetts General Hospital, in place of the late Dr. Calvin Ellis, is prominently mentioned as the probable successor of Dr. Ellis in the faculty of the Harvard Medical School...