Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...method that accepts as of universal applicability the laws of growth. It attempts to trace the source of the various impulses and reactions that mark English literature in the last century, and to show that they were only manifestations of a general development common to all European nations. Critics hitherto have been satisfied to point out wherein they deemed a book good or bad. It is now hardly too much to hope that they may find it work profitable to show why a writer is what he is. Mr. Perry's book, although of deep value to the reflective student...
...provided by law that whenever hereafter a superintendent shall be appointed for the United States Naval Observatory at Washington he shall be a professional astronomer of experience, and that the new observatory building, soon to be erected, shall be planned and built by a commission of scientific men. Hitherto the observatory has been an adjunct of the naval department...
...Hitherto in the calculation of the general scale of marks by the faculty for the four years each year has had more weight than the following year, i. e., the freshman year has counted more than the sophomore year, the sophmore more than the junior, and so on. Hereafter each year's work will have equal value in the calculation of the general scale...
...hoped that the Athletic Association will consider the advisability of giving more valuable prizes at the winter meeting this year than has hitherto been the custom. The winter meetings are exceedingly remunerative, and now that the financial condition of the association is so much improved, there seems to be no good reason why the men who contribute to the entertainment and spend a large amount of time and money in preparation for the different events, should not obtain some reward which shall be worthy of preserving. It is true that contestants enter rather for honor than for any substantial reward...
...suitable physique, and can spare the time, to offer his services to the captain. Eighty-three began her boating career with a victory, and we believe that it is in her power to end it with one, provided she shows that determination to win which has hitherto been the marked characteristic of the class...