Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...among the different colleges and preparatory schools, it does not seem amiss to call attention to another point which bears directly upon the future orgaization and success of the various college teams, - the picking out of the proper material for positions on the representative elevens, nines and eighths. Hitherto this arduous and by no means agreeable duty has fallen to the lot of the captains elected by the several classes. He it is who, in a large measure, selects and appoints men fit in his estimation to do credit to the college in the athletic field, and he holds...
...line of communication where the crying need of it has been most sorely felt-the road from Cambridge into Boston. Residents of the university town must still jog along by horse cars three-quarters of an hour to get into the city. Various schemes of improvement have been suggested hitherto, but nothing has been effected beyond a new horse-car line in competition with the horse-car monopoly of the past thirty years. The elevated railroad project, which has received this week a large majority in the lower house of the Legislature, is a peculiar one, and is only permitted...
...Economic Conditions of its Well-being,' and the course commenced on 21st. inst." Whilst American colleges for the education of women, such as Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley, have honored many women with appointments as professors and instructors, and Wellesley has a woman at its head, English female colleges have hitherto been contented with gentlemen. This is only another example to show how much farther woman has progressed in this country than in England, especially in self-independence. Not only in the matter of instructors are American women ahead of their sisters across the water, but in the number of colleges...
...first event called was the middleweight sparring between Mr. Bangs, L. S. S., and Mr. Gormley. Mr. Bangs has hitherto been known only as a successful wrestler. He was lighter than his opponent but sparred pluckily and well. Gormley won after a close contest...
...water outpoured" could not comfort him in his really very natural shyness. A happy thought occurred to me. In early and credulous youth I had studied the works of Cornelous youth I had studied the works of Cornelius Agrippa and Petrus de Abano. Their lessons, which had not hitherto been of much practical service, recurred to my mind. Stooping down I drew a circle round myself and my old friend in the fragrant white blossoms which were strewn so thick that they quite hid the grass. This circle I fortified by the usual signs employed, as Benvenuto Cellini tells...