Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made up by extra work in other studies. So far the commission has accomplished one good result, at least, by making the requirements for English literature uniform in all the fourteen colleges. The commission now contemplates raising the requirements in modern languages, and should the plan succeed, all the colleges interested would probably adopt the same standard. Similarity in entrance examinations is not only impossible but undesirable, yet a certain uniformity will undoubtedly tend to strengthen the bonds between the various colleges and facilitate greatly the preparatory work of many young...
Yesterday afternoon a short business meeting of the Finance Club was held. Professor Taussig resigned the presidency of the club, and Mr. Gray was chosen to succeed him. The following men were elected to membership: From '89-G. H. Holliday, Hudson, Rich, C. Warren; '90-Cole, Olmstead, Stebbins...
...religious differences between Persia and Turkey would make a great religious movement impossible. Isolated attempts at a religious crusade. like that which marked the rise of Islam, may succeed temporarily. The Mahdi in the Soudan may hold out for a time against the force sent against him. The intelligent Moslems, however, realize the utter hopelessness of an assault upon the Christian powers...
President Hill of Bucknell University is to succeed Dr. Martin B. Anderson as President of Rochester University...
...coast of the island of Samos, but the American party suffered no loss. Professor Peters was not with them, but was in Constantinople, working to secure permission to excavate-a permission which the Turks are always loth to grant. Professor Peters felt sure, however, that he would succeed, after which it was his purpose to join the party in Syria, and then proceed to the old Babylonian ruins. The leader of the party is enterprising, and is accompanied by two other Assyrian scholars, as well as by a photographer, etc. Nothing but well-known obstacles presented by the Turkish...