Word: successors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...went to Washington yesterday to take up a position in the Intercollegiate Intelligence Bureau. This bureau supplies all departments of the Government with college men who are especially fitted for certain branches of Government work. After the war it will also provide occupations for men leaving the Army. His successor as adjutant has not been named...
...quarter of a century he has been active in French politics, but on each of the three occasions when he was made prime minister, his stay in office was embittered by the virulent opposition of the extreme radicals, who on one occasion passed a vote of confidence in his successor upon his announcing identically the same program as the day before had caused M. Ribot's defeat. But in spite of such treatment he has been willing to perform every service in his power for the good of the country...
...might be said that does Mr. Roosevelt desire to serve, he may offer his sword to our ally, France. She would no doubt give him a position commensurate with her opinion of his abilities. That might be as captain of a company, or as a successor to Petain. We cannot...
...captain is more than a good player. He is personally a man whom other men would willingly follow. That is a rare quality, and high praise. Perhaps the highest praise would be to say that he is a worthy successor to that captain who led Harvard through a season of brilliant victory, and through a no less honorable one of scanty defeat. Our teams have had throughout their history notable captains. George Percy is worthy of the tradition...
Five noted men, James, Royce, Muensterberg, Santayana and Palmer, were not many years ago all teaching in Harvard's department of philosophy and psychology; now the first three are dead, the fourth has gone back to his native continent, and the fifth has retired. A successor as distinguished as any one of them is not immediately in sight, and Harvard must feel deeply her losses in a division of instruction that drew students even from abroad--as the brilliant editor of the Hibbert Journal, L. P. Jacks. Many of the departments even in a university like Harvard are departments whose...