Word: successor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hill a plot of ground for a Normal School, the building for which has not yet been erected. On the eastern side is the old monastery of the Asomaton, now occupied as officers' barracks, standing picturesquely in the midst of trees, one of the few groves in Attica, the successor of the ancient sanctuary and gymnasium of Cynosarges, which occupied this spot. In the central portion is a small park, and above this and the open grounds of the hospital is the plot of ground, containing about three acres, which the Greek Government, with a liberality which has characterized...
...earlier representatives of the historical department at Harvard rather than the courses given by the present generation of teachers. Justice to contemporaries requires at least a brief review of the present condition of the work which, since the retirement of Professor Torrey and the death of his successor, Professor Gurney, in 1886, is left entirely in the hands of younger Harvard. Into better or worthier hands this could not have fallen. For years some of the young professors have been in training for their present responsibilities. Indeed, for a long time before the recent transition was made, the chief burden...
...Crib Club, the successor to the Westchester Hare and Hounds Club, of New York, in conjunction with the Pioneer cross-country Club, will hold a paper chase on Thursday over the championship course above Fort George...
...BRINE, successor...
...pains taken to make the college pulpit what Dr. Brooks is reported to have said it should be-"the great preacher's place of this country." We have already heard Professor Drummond, of Glasgow, and Professor Murray, the preacher to Princeton College. Next Sunday, Rev. T. C. Williams, the successor of Rev. Dr. Bellows, of New York City, and a graduate of the class of 1878, will preach. Later will come Dr. Murger, of New Haven, Bishop H. C. Potter, of New York City, and other representative men. The vesper services will, it is announced, begin immediately after Thanksgiving...