Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...alone, but at all courses to which entrance is hampered by obscure restrictions. The arguments were that it is unwise to limit membership at all in courses of general value; and that if restriction is unavoidable, the grounds on which it will be made should be clearly stated ahead of time in the catalogue...
...advance just whom they will bar they can at least indicate that a certain class need not fear rejection. Then those who desire to take any given course can make sure that they will not be disappointed at the last minute. The present elective system requires much looking ahead. If we are to lay plans with certainty, we must know what to plan on. The catalogue "star" is an antiquated dovice which often results in both misunderstanding and hard feeling. Its meaning is obscure, leaving everything to the eleventh hour discretion of the instructor,--often to the eleventh hour discomfiture...
...universities of the country, meaning in numbers. Now we may perceive that in the reckoning by numbers alone Harvard is sixth down the list, Yale is seventeenth, and Princeton twenty-sixth in the list, while Columbia has not only attained the front rank, but got so far ahead of it that there seems almost to be a vacancy in the second place. Of the universities which come next, California now impressive with 8,180 students, and Chicago with its 7,131, were almost unknown in the palmy days of the "Big Four." But this change in order does not argue...
...clubs which should survive the qualifying round, all the organizations were divided into groups according to their respective percentages of arguments won and lost. If the highest group contained four or more clubs, all in that group only were to enter the final rounds. To the club coming out ahead next fall, a prize of $200 and a set of books will be given, while the second best club will receive $100 and a set of books...
...race for the Filley Cup, the third and fourth Thayer eights getting second and third respectively. On the last day of the regatta crews A and B raced over a mile and seven-eighths and were less than two seconds apart at the finish. Crew B forged slightly ahead and crew A crossed the line a scant 10 feet behind...