Word: successor
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Coach E. L. Grant 1L. has resigned, but his successor has not yet been appointed...
...Baha 'Ullah, who was, after this declaration, confined in Acre by the Turkish Government, has written many epistles which form the holy books of the Babists, and just before his death in 1892 wrote his book of the Covenant in which he appointed his son Abbaseffendi his spiritual successor. It is as an emissary of Abbaseffendi that All Kuli Kahn has come to America. Although about 10,000 adherents of this faith have been put to death in Persia in the last sixty years the sect has lately gained many new followers, and is now recognized...
...Woods explained the peculiar but not unpraiseworthy characteristics of the natives of India--their passive bravery, their love of self-directed duty and their aversion to authority and organization, their respect for nature, their deep religions sensibility. To these people the doctrines of Gotoma and his greater successor, Buddha, seemed not unsound. The two leaders believed in the subtle extension of personality, the doctrine that perfect individuals must sooner or later blend into one great whole. Each man must strive for that after-life into which he can pour his whole being. In this way he will obtain the cosmic...
...College, was reelected in 1893, and was chosen a Fellow of Harvard college without time limit in 1894. He was appointed counsel for the Boston Terminal Company, and vice-president of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company in 1896. In 1902 he was prominently mentioned as the successor of the late Justice Horace Gray as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court...
...House Committee, the chief governing power of the Union, last year elected a chairman who was to be absent for the greater part of his term; on his departure a successor was appointed, not elected; at the meetings of the committee some members almost made it a business to stay away, or if present took no active part in the affairs they were elected to transact. The Membership Committee this year was lax in performing the small amount of business its duties called for: five men not members of the Union were nominated for officers; the list of nominees...