Word: succeeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Naval Conference Will Succeed...
...subject of the Naval Conference in London, Libby expressed the belief that it will succeed "but needs the support of enlightened public opinion in the countries participating. Unquestioned success at London requires visible reduction in expenditures and the abolition of battleships is the hope, if net savings are to be obtained. The rapid development of the airplane and the submarine during the 11 years since the war has made it unlikely that battleships will ever again repeat the Gallipoli adventure. The only other historic use of battleships is in fighting other battleships. If there are no other battleships to fight...
Parkman will succeed the Reverend Dr. William Greenough Thayer, headmaster for the last 36 years, who tendered his resignation on November 11. Parkman, when he takes charge of his new position, will find himself placed in command over a faculty of which half a dozen or more members taught him when he was a student at St. Mark's from 1911 to 1915. Parkman will assume his new responsibilities on September 1, when Dr. Thayer's resignation is effective...
Francis Parkman '18, assistant dean of Harvard College, and instructor and tutor in the History Department, is a leading possibility to fill the position of headmaster of St. Mark's School at Southboro, to succeed Dr. William Greenough Thayer, who resigned last November, is has been learned...