Word: successors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lyman Abbott, D. D., brother of Rev. Edward Abbott of Cambridge, has accepted the permanent pastorate of Plymouth Church, as the successor of Henry Ward Beecher...
...Martin B. Anderson, for more than thirty years president of the University of Rochester, has recently resigned, and the appointment of his successor is awaited with great interest. Among the candidates are Rev. David L. Hill, LL. D., president of Bicknell University, Lewisburg, Penn., and Professor E. H. Johnson, D. D., of Crozier Theological Seminary, Chester, Penn. Dr. Hill is one of the youngest college presidents in the country, but has written text books on rhetoric, logic and psychology...
...done much to bring the college to its present prosperous condition, having labored hard and faithfully for nearly a quarter of a century in the interests of the institution, whose chief he was. It will be no easy matter for the Board of Trustees to select a worthy successor to the responsible position which Dr. Barnard has been compelled, by ill-health, to vacate. As for the retiring president, he can desire no better reward than a retrospective glance at the ever-increasing prosperity of the college during the past twenty-five years-a prosperity which in great measure...
...given for President Barnard's clinging so tenaciously to leadership of Columbia's interests, is his desire to fill out a term of twenty-five years. The greatest consideration is shown by all those connected with Columbia for its president, and it is asserted that whatever occurs, no successor will be chosen until next year...
Benjamin Carpenter has resigned his position as leader of the Glee Club, and as yet no successor has been appointed...