Word: supplanted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Andover Chapel tonight at 7.45 o'clock the Andover Theological Seminary and the Divinity School will hold a joint Christmas service. The program, conducted under the auspices of the two schools, will supplant the separate services which have been held in past years. M. J. Holmes of the Divinity School will deliver the Christmas sermon, and a number of carols will be sung, under the direction of Dr. A. T. Davison '06, by the choirs of the Theological Seminary and the Divinity School. The service is open to all members of the University...
Quite possibly there exists no better material in this country for military officers than our colleges and universities offer. There is not only no better, but there is no other material from which can be drawn those who will spread the doctrines of the futility of war and supplant those diplomatists and leaders of popular opinion who were responsible for the present conflict...
Thus with the Yard. What the University really wants is a Yard of all the stateliness and beauty of the days before the late elms began to fail. What it has, to supplant the lumbering scenes of the past week, are a great many ridiculous young shoots, interspersed among some more promising ones and a few saplings which have almost attained treehood. Of course there was a stateliness and beauty about the old Yard akin to the beauty of the English lawns that the gardener said required only three hundred years of care to procure. But there is a possibility...
Accordingly, the suggestion from Paris seems especially pertinent. To supplant the dead trees with mature full-grown trees is, briefly, the plan. The necessity of enduring a collection of ambitious but ineffective saplings while they try with dubious success to grow into trees is thus obviated. The period, necessarily of considerable length, between the time when the old trees begin to die and the time when other trees of healthy maturity appear to replace them is reduced to a minimum as is the risk of failure...
...turns to it be tutored will help himself, in that he will receive true tutoring instead of the predigested summaries learned today and forgotten tomorrow of the highly organized agencies. While we do not expect that any bureau of the nature of the present Employment Office can supplant those outside, which make tutoring a business, a little spontaneous co-operation would enlarge its field and make it better serve its purpose...