Word: pre
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large audience greeted Prof. Lanciani yesterday evening and listened to his learned and instructive words on pre-historic Rome. The chief charm in all that he says lies in the feeling that he is so directly and so intimately connected with the subject he is treating. His subject and his personality each gain by their close association...
...recent editorial in the News claims that, in spite of criticism. "Yale, as a college is unsurpassed." To support this somewhat bold assertion, it makes the statement that "It is on its traditions that a college can claim its pre-eminence;" that "the closeness of our college requirements forbids any stagnation, it makes necessary a wideness of acquaintance and interest; it has produced what has come to be worded 'Yale enthusiasm...
Indeed, Yale must be in a strong position when it can rest for its pre-eminence on "traditions." In how strong a position Yale is at present the readers of current comment know, with alumni on every hand crying for a new president and a new curriculum, for an abandonment of those antiquated methods which have left Yale far in the rear of these modern times...
HISTORY. The consolidation of Italy. 2. The constitutionality of National Banks. 3. The Hungarian movement for self government. 4. The Consolidation of the government during the first few years after the adoption of the constitution. 5. The public land policy with special reference to the pre-emption law. 6. The validity of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. 7. Have the principles of the Monroe doctrine been adhered to in the policies of the various administrations, and has the doctrine been misinterpreted by popular opinion? 8. The connection of the church with slavery? 9. Should the United States exercise a controlling influence...
...position. In spite of the adverse criticism in the CRIMSON that the story is "incongruous and lacks force," it must have struck many readers that here, with all due deference to the CRIMSON, be it said, we have a story of remarkable beauty and force, one which stands forth pre eminent from the ordinary ruck of college fiction, and for which we should be duly thankful...