Word: successor
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...stated, has the institution been in better condition and freer from vice or disorder. The college has a history dating back half a century, and is noted as having been the only college in the South which did not close its doors during the civil war. It is the successor of Queen's College, which was conducted before the American Revolution...
...Liberal," says the London Times, "or for the Minister of the United States at St. James', that the St. Andrew's student voted; it was for the author of the 'Biglow Papers' and 'Under the Willows' and 'Among My Books.' Their candidate was the friend of Hawthorne, the successor to Long fellow's chair at Harvard; one of the leaders in the society which has invested Cambridge, in Massachusetts, with something of the halo of Weimar; the expert in English Literature who has redeemed the name of Fielding from unmerited reproaches...
...manuscripts in Europe, reaches back to the time of Nicholas V., who, in 1447, transferred the manuscripts in the Lateran, the church of highest dignity in the Roman Communion, to his own palace. In all he collected about 9,000 manuscripts, part of which were destroyed by his successor. Pope Sixtus V., however, showed great zeal in builking up the papal library. In 1588, he erected the beginning of the present structure. The celebrity of the Library dates from the sixteenth century, when important additions were made. In 1600, the institution contained 10,660 manuscripts-a large collection for that...
...Rovinson an LL. D. without unnecessary delay. It was thought that when Gov. Butler did not receive this degree, that the practice, once having been broken, would not be resumed, but already the degree is suggested for Robinson. The lack of it did not bother Butler much, and his successor will not discover it to be of special value. The Harvard daily HERALD-CRIMSON takes the proper view of this LL. D. Business. It would have the custom of conferring the degree upon the governor of the state "remain a thing of the past;" but "if Mr. Robinson should show...
This leaves a cash balance of $56.24 in the base-ball treasury after all bills are paid. There is due the association some $300 in unpaid subscriptions, and $15 from other sources, but I have taken no account of these in my report as my successor will have the trouble of collecting the money which is not yet paid...