Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Globe considers that the results of the recent co-operation of the New England colleges towards equalizing their standard of admission has resulted so that "Exeter, for instance, long a Harvard school, is sending many boys to Yale. Phillips Andover. hitherto a Yale school, this year sends five boys to Harvard, and is likely to send fifteen next year. Williston, the largest feeder of Yale, last year sent more boys to Cambridge than to New Haven. It is understood that the destruction of the individual character of these schools is entirely in accord with the wishes of their officers...
...Hitherto much annoyance and excessive charges have arisen when students were required to obtain foreign books. Hereafter students who patronize King's book-store will probably find a revolution in this particular, for Mr. King will endeavor to give the very lowest terms possible, and by importing his books directly from the European publishers he will be able to get desired books at the earliest moment and at the smallest cost. He has on hand at all times the catalogues of various publishers of Europe and America, so as to be able to give to callers or buyers a definite...
...Hitherto much annoyance and excessive charges have arisen when students were required to obtain foreign books. Hereafter students who patronize King's book-store will probably find a revolution in this particular, for Mr. King will endeavor to give the very lowest terms possible, and by importing his books directly from the European publishers he will be able to get desired books at the earliest moment and at the smallest cost. Next autumn he will have on hand at all times the catalogues of the various publishers of Europe and America, so as to be able to give to callers...
...portion of the hill of Hissarlik he has opened a series of holes, corridors and vaults which, according to his confident belief, are ruins of the citadel of ancient Pergamos. Dr. Schliemann adds that the researches he has recently been prosecuting have convinced him that the views he has hitherto held respecting the sight of Ilium, and of many of the relics he formerly discovered, will require very considerable modification...
...Cornell Era in a recent editorial speaks of a matter which will perhaps prove of interest, in view of the fact that the chief care at present is to have the new suit resemble as little as possible an apoplectic fit: "We have hitherto confined our attention to college affairs. But within the past ten days an affair has happened which, although small in itself, yet involves a principle which is of no small moment. We allude to the action of a well-known firm in this place in bringing suit against one of the students who refused to take...