Word: pre
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unlikely that the committee will decide to award the "H" on a pre-war basis to all competing teams, but it is not improbable that in special cases men may receive their letters. Yale and Princeton are awarding insignia in all sports, but the Athletic Committee has repeatedly expressed itself against awarding...
When the crew squad was first called out by Acting Captain F. Parkman '19, on March 4, only 50 upperclassmen and 45 Freshmen reported for the initial workouts on the machines. Owing to the fuel situation this pre-season practice was carried on at the Locker Building instead of the Newell Boathouse. The next week, however, saw the oarsmen in the tank at the latter place. Though various experimental shifts were made during the remainder of the season, the University eight was at that time seated as it rowed both Yale and Princeton, with one exception,--D. L. Withington...
...light of impartial judgment, Irish conscription is pre-eminently fair. Depleted English and Irish battalions have been recruited almost entirely through the British draft. It is time that Ireland should, do her share. This war is her war in as great a degree as it is England's. Irish leaders supported the original declaration of hostilities and have since maintained the belief that Ireland is directly and irrevocably concerned. The volunteer system has not brought the desired results. Fair play now demands conscription...
...Among the qualities most needed in a builder," said he, "the ability to think clear of one's class and to estimate a man as a man stands pre-eminent." He showed also the great need of co-operation between labor and capital in the vast reconstruction of the future...
...college graduates in the community has changed greatly from the days when colleges were primarily established to prepare students for the ministry. Each one of the professions in turn has become a field for college-trained men, and in every field so opened the college man has gained pre-eminence or monopoly. But among business men--men engaged in manufacture, transportation, commerce, mining and agriculture--college training down to the present has been the exception rather than the rule. In spite of the increasing volume of graduates who have made business their vocation, leadership in business has not yet definitely...