Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...change has been made in the course on the Thames for the Harvard-Yale Freshman boat race. Hitherto the crews have rowed on the east side of the stream from the Navy Yard docks to the draw. This year the Freshman crews will row over the lower two miles of the University course which will remain the same as in previous years. The change in the Freshman course was made purely as a matter of convenience...
Since the last report, soundings of great interest and scientific value have been made. One haul reached a depth of 4173 fathoms, and the discovery was made that a variety of sponge, found hitherto only in comparatively shallow water, exists at this great depth...
...recent meeting of the Corporation it was decided to create the office of Inspector of Grounds and Buildings. The buildings and grounds have hitherto been under the supervision of the Bursar, but in recent years his duties have been so numerous that it was considered advisable to relieve...
Trust implies limitation, either of knowledge or power; but the action is sometimes a hazardous one, as it involves great risk. We must make our faith dependent, as the old explorers and inventors did, upon the action of a law which we have hitherto taken for granted...
...Benjamin Rand, of the Philosophical Department, has in press an edition of the "Philosophical Regimen" and the hitherto unpublished Letters of the third Earl of Shaftesbury...