Word: predecessor
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have a marked book before me, and the passages clearly indicate that "the good work was done by different hands, each striving to complete the work of his predecessor and to prevent his successor's receiving mistaken ideas of his capacity, - just as if one ever knew who marked a book. Here are a few of the selected bits marked in the book before...
...fall must be vigilant, and see that the board is good at the beginning, and also that it remains so; they must make the steward understand that if, dazzled by his success, he becomes at all remiss, his fate will be the same as was that of his predecessor...
THERE is a rumor current, that, on his entrance upon office, the new steward of Memorial Hall requested of his predecessor a copy of the bill-of-fare by which, during the late regime, the table had been regulated; a request which the latter refused to comply with, unwilling to give over into the hands of a rival a work which he had been more than two years in perfecting. The students fully support Mr. Farmer in this decision...
...less free use of the privilege in question. Upon the whole, then, the fair deduction from the returns of last year, whether they are examined with respect to average results, or with an inquiry into individual cases, appears to me to be the same which was drawn by my predecessor from the first year's trial of the system of voluntary attendance, - that the influence of the system on the general scholarship of the class, so far as it is exhibited by the marks given by instructors, is imperceptible, either for good or evil. And without laying too much stress...
...protect themselves, their proper course is to join the Association at once. Investigations which are being made seem to show that the affairs of the Association have been very poorly managed, and it is certain that a new steward will be selected who will avoid the blunders of his predecessor. If a sufficient number of those who have been driven from the Hall by the mistakes of the past will give the Association one more trial, the price of board will undoubtedly be kept at a reasonable figure, the fare will be improved, and the commons will regain many...