Word: successor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that duty. As secretary and treasurer of the Society I have now in my possession both its documents and its funds. However unpleasant it may prove to be, I shall regard it as my duty to retain possession of the property which has been entrusted to me until my successor has been legally elected...
...last January, is at last ready for distribution. The book has been made up by the kindness of Mr. W. G. Peckham, '67, and the energy of Mr. T. T. Baldwin, '86. It was proposed at the twentieth annual dinner of the paper in 1886, and is a fit successor to its sister volume of 1876, which met with such instant success...
Eastman, the catcher of the Williams College nine, is a resident of Albany. Since the retirement of Finley, he is looked upon as his successor to the title of the best college catcher...
...years after the extinction of the "Harvard Magazine," a successor appeared in 1866, this time in the form of a newspaper called "The Collegian." The heavy tone of the magazine was abandoned, and none but light and interesting articles were admitted into its columns. But, unfortunately, "The Collegian" met with an untimely end, being suppressed by the faculty for certain disrespectful allusions to that august body. Its last number appeared in April...
...Massachusetts Bay, and would usually have a grand chowder somewhere - generally on the shore of Cape Cod. This cruise lasted three days. On returning, they landed at one of the Boston wharves, and proceeded to Cambridge in wagons, usually in a very merry mood. The Admiral then selected his successor, and the navy disbanded for the year...