Word: successor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard Union is the successor of the old Union and its purpose is to encourage debating and public speaking. Its members are selected by public competitions held at various times during the year and open to all who wish to try. At the regular meetings after the principal disputants have spoken, any one may take part...
...style of batting at which the men have been coached lately first showed its good results yesterday. Priest, the star pitcher of the Cornells, was knocked out of the box in three innings, and his successor fared no better than he had. The 'varsity made twenty-one safe hits and there were two particularly satisfactory features of this hitting. Only eleven balls were put up in the air, and, with the exception of four strike outs and a foul tip, every other hit was on the ground. Again the men did not try to knock long hits...
...timely errors, rolled up six runs. From that point on all uncertainty as to the result was gone. Dartmouth turned all her energies toward securing a single run, while Harvard drove Connor from the box in the third and made three runs in every succeeding inning off his successor, Smalley...
...recently at the regular meeting of the Yale Corporation. W. L. Phelps, instructor at Harvard, was elected instructor in English literature; Jules Luquien, professor of Romance languages in the Mass. Institute of Technology, will succeed Professor Knapp as professor of modern language. Professor Williams of Cornell was appointed the successor of Professor Dana...
President White of Cornell is mentioned as the successor of Hon. Whitelay Reid as Minister to France...