Word: predecessor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Advocate, and the call on students to subscribe for a sufficient number to guarantee the publication of this work, ought surely interest and appeal to every man who knows the merits of the earlier volume published in 1877. The information that this new collection is going to excell its predecessor, is additional argument for every lover of verse to place it on the shelves of his book-case...
...Mahany, who followed for the affirmative, denied most of the statements made by his predecessor. He then touched upon the fearful oppression to which the Irish nation had been subject to at the hands of England for 700 years. By means of statistics written upon the blackboard, he showed that England would lose nothing by surrendering all claim to the control of Ireland...
...world the Latin Address despatched to Harvard by some Cambridge Undergrad. It has been received with unparalleled enthusiasm in America, and the following strictly classical reply was agreed to at a recent "Bump Supper," on the other side of the Atlantic. Its elegant Latinity, like that of its predecessor, speaks for itself...
...spite of this, and also of the fact that every freshman team is somewhat hindered by the lack of experience, '89 ought to be inspired by the example of her predecessor, and if it is possible, a good team should represent the class in the winter meetings...
...injury and to the class for its real loss. We trust, however, that this misfortune will in no way dampen eighty-nine's enthusiasm in boating matters; and that whoever may succeed to the position of captain of the eighty-nine crew will work as conscientiously as his predecessor has done...