Word: pre
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...series of recommendations by the faculty committee on student affairs designed to curtail athletic schedules and expenses, has created a sensation at Cornell. The student body is highly enthusiastic over the success of the football team and objects strenuously to such recommendations as the abolishing of the pre-Thanksgiving trip to Atlantic City. Plans have already been made to call the attention of alumni bodies all over the country to the proposed program...
...that the name of Harvard University is becoming, along the Western battle-front in Europe, synonymous with generosity, courage, and devotion to humane service. The two hospitals of the Ambulance Americaine in France are supported by American money and operated by American surgical skill, which has won for them pre-eminent place, recognized by the military and medical authorities on the Continent. Harvard has already contributed a surgical unit from her medical school for a three months tour of service, and other surgeons who are Harvard men are now there in the Lycee Pasteur and at Juilly doing brilliant work...
...elective system which is now so familiar to us. "Universities were invented," says the author of this article, "for the sake of bringing their fortunate students into contact with the precious lore of the world, there garnered and kept pure." Nowadays, "if a boy does not feel a pre-established harmony between his soul and the humanities, then give him an academic degree on something with which his soul will be in pre-established harmony. And if there is no pre-established harmony between his soul and any form of learning, then create institutions that will give him a degree...
...annual pre-season track meeting for everyone interested in University or Freshman track athletics will be held in the Trophy Room of the Union Thursday evening at 7 o'clock. All members of the University who intend to take part in any department of track athletics should attend this first meeting, when the fall program will be outlined. N. W. Bingham '95, W. A. Barron, Jr., '14, captain of the 1914 team, and Alfred Shrubb, coach of the cross-country teams will be the speakers...
...School has suffered an irreparable loss by the death of Dean Thayer. Five years work at the head of the school had proved his pre-eminent fitness for the task which he assumed in 1910, when he gave up assured distinction at the bar for an academic career. He was a man of rare endowments. From early boyhood his brilliancy of mind and strength of character was marked. Always first as a student in school, College and Law School, he nevertheless found time for much besides study. Whatever interested others in the way of physical sport or social diversion interested...