Word: hitherto
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...Oxford Review of a recent date contains the following: "A great change affecting the army, is announced, which has unusual importance to members of the university who may contemplate a military career. Hitherto, Latin and Greek have been included among the voluntary subjects of the final examination by which it was possible to obtain extra marks and thereby compensate for deficiencies in other respects. Many a man in the good old times has gone up, relying mainly on his classics to pull him through, and has been eventually pulled through in this way, though, perhaps, in rather a battered state...
...Board of Overseers have refused to sanction the vote of the Faculty that the Quinquennial catalogue be written in English instead of Latin. Consequently, as hitherto, Anglo Saxon names will continue to be distorted into barbarous Latin...
...surprise of everybody, the hitherto complacent Yale Record makes the humiliating admission that " Already the Argo, the Atheneum, the Advocate, the Lampoon, the Spectator, that precocious youth, the Burr, are at the front in this particular or that...
...fourth concert of the series was given last night in Sanders' Theatre, before the largest audience that has hitherto attended these concerts...
Accompanying our criticism of the crews, we beg leave to offer a few suggestions in regard to the freshman crew. To insure success in the race with Columbia, two eights should be kept at work throughout the year. Hitherto it has been customary to dispense with a second eight in the early part of spring, and keep but a few substitutes in training. The experience the last three years has proved that changes are often necessary as late as May or June. There will be no substitutes competent to take places on the regular crew unless they have...