Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report has it that the professors are cutting rates and offering to deliver a series of lectures at a far lower figure than has hitherto been felt compatible with professional dignity. As a result, there is considerable backbiting and double-crossing going on, and it may be necessary for Prexy Lowell to intervene and put the lecture industry of his professors on a standardized, and possibly, and union basis. Some of the professors are using photographs and lantern slides in connection with their lectures, and it is said that they charge no more for their verbal and mechanical output than...
Professor Fay believes, however, that the Young Plan, like the Dawes Plan, will ultimately have to be revised, for several reasons. "Germany hitherto has paid all Reparations only as a result of the foreign loans made to her. These foreign loans cannot go on at the same rate in the future as in the past. In the long run, Germany can only pay the interest on these loans together with the Reparation payments by a surplus of exports over imports. But for the last twenty years she has always had a surplus of imports over exports. It will be impossible...
...writing about his own times and for the University public in reading about its own self. A summary of the varied trends which in the near past have contributed to the Harvard of the present correlates the ambiguity of tradition and the existence of isolated events. Such factual and hitherto unpublished knowledge as that of President Lowell being the anonymous donor of New Lecture Hall makes still clearer the indefatiguable interest, aside from his executive duties, with which he regards the current happenings in which the University is concerned...
Among the hitherto unknown facts made public for the first time in Professor Morison's newly published volume on the recent history of Harvard University is that President Lowell was the anonymous donor of the New Lecture Hall in 1902 when President Eliot was at the head of the University...