Word: pre-war
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...education offered. One such slash was the abolition of the tutorial program in the Department of Economics. Now the University has elected to meet increased costs through a tuition hike. In return for the higher tuition extracted from them, students have the right to expect a restoration of pre-war quality in the education opportunities offered them...
Upperclassmen can look forward to fewer midterm grades and a minimum of seating lists next fall, thanks to a Faculty vote Tuesday revoking two 1943 rulings and returning to pre-war regulations...
Harvard University's Rugby Football Club, known more familiarly as the rugby team, after pre-war years of "unofficial" activity followed by three inactive seasons, has finally emerged from the doldrums with the athletic prize of the decade. Coach Jim Nuland and 17 players will leave by plane from New York March 28, to participate in Bermuda's Rugby Week over the Easter vacation...
...more affluent pre-war days Dudley claimed a "gentleman's library," but these volumes, being unattended, were soon surreptitiously removed to the homes of a few commuters. Though a more practical library followed, the texts were soon out-dated and no money remained for new purchases. Now, with the demand for convenient books greater than ever, commuters have their choice of buying seldom used texts, or spending long afternoons and evenings in the monotonous environs of Widener when they would rather study, and eat, at home. The 9 o'clock check out (and check in) deadline for reserved volumes practically...
...newly-discovered details of Russia's pre-war plan to divide Europe with Germany...