Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...daily paper at Harvard begins the fourth year of its existence under somewhat more favorable circumstances than have hitherto fallen to its lot. Since the founding of the paper its life has been one continual struggle for that support which pride in all that belongs to Harvard should have prompted. During the year just passed, however, the college has improved in this respect and we can but ask to receive the same support, both literary and pecuniary, for another year. We shall endeavor to make the paper what it has ever attempted to be, a newspaper of college news, devoted...
...absence of manual work in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale is criticised as it gives, says the report, a theoretical tone in the instruction. Of the department of Practical Science at Brown University, he observes that "hitherto it has been chiefly distinguished for its thorough training in chemical science, as applied to the industrial arts, the effects of which have been largely felt and appreciated in the industries of the district, namely, bleaching, calico printing and papermaking...
...months, several indispensable books have disappeared. Three French dictionaries, a volume of Corneile, and one of Motiere, and other books, all in daily use, are missing. The harm done is not so much the pecuniary loss as the inconvenience to which all the students of French are subjected. Hitherto they have been allowed unlimited liberties in the use of the books belonging to the French department. The reading-room has been a quiet and pleasant retreat, where all books necessary for the study of French could be obtained. Unless those volumes which have been taken are restored, it will...
...than their opponents, we hope that the success for which they have earnestly worked will be gained. But whatever may be the outcome of the struggle, the freshman class have certainly rendered the college a service by putting at an end, once for all, the disagreeable disputes which have hitherto accompanied the Yale-Harvard freshman base ball games...
...Harvard, which is as yet, we hope, confined to but one society. For many years there has existed a Natural History society which has quietly followed year after year the set forms and regulations which have been handed down from our forefathers. Among other customs, the society has hitherto had rooms where the members have met and debated on the important subjects which have come up for consideration. Now, we regret to learn, this old custom has been given up. The new shingles which have just been printed bear the following remarkable legend : "The members are requested to meet...