Word: pre
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...local Harvard Club in New England to appoint a committee to spread information about Harvard among the schools in its neighborhood is, we believe, a wise one from every point of view. For the College it is essential, for even in New England Harvard does not occupy the obvious pre-eminence among the college-going classes that it once did, largely because the college-going class has so enlarged itself in the last twenty-five years. Nowadays great numbers of boys work their way through college, and many of them do not know of the many chances of earning money...
Professor Royce's account of James is both sympathetic and objective. If it is open to criticism it is because James was so pre-eminently an individual that it is impossible to regard him as typical or representative of anything, without losing the essence of him. He can perhaps be portrayed; but he cannot be classified or labelled, without to some extent belittling him. And this Professor Royce himself understood, when he set himself the task of "viewing James from without, in a way that is of course as imperfect as it is inevitable...
...long ago the Lampoon burst forth in strains of well pre-meditated wit upon that "Home of Discomfort" and "Place of Pain" Sever 11. Yesterday our attention was directed to the occasion when first the CRIMSON found fault with conditions as they existed in this Hall...
...with the University life, and will use it to entertain classmates and friends. To non-resident graduates it should be of inestimable value as a home on visits to Boston and Cambridge. Finally, with a well-appointed building and the inevitably stronger organization that must result, and with its pre-eminently favorable situation, the Harvard Club of Boston should be enabled to take a leading part in the affairs of the Associated Harvard Clubs, which have responded so nobly and generously in the past to the needs of the University, and have done so much to unite and co-ordinate...
There has been no season in recent years when the pre-season practice has promised better results; although there were only seven "Y" men left, there was such a wealth of material from last year's college team-men who would have in all probability made the university except for injuries, that the gap was almost filled. In the early practice there were none of the faults of fumbling and mixing signals which have since been so noticeable...