Word: pre
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard's dripping sons would respond instantly to the suggestion, no matter how veiled or subtle, that yesterday was an exceptionally hot day. Many men, in fact, who had stayed in Cambridge expressly to study for examinations, found refuge only in what Professor Copeland used to consider in pre-war days the most thoroughly established of all Harvard undergraduate activities, namely, "sitting around...
...this spring, beginning on Sunday, June 15, and will unite to make this year's Commencement the most extraordinary which has ever taken place in Cambridge. After a lapse of two years, the exercises of Class Week will be renewed with even more enthusiasm than was evident in the pre-wartime festivities, and will be marked by various services in memory of the approximately three hundred University graduates who died...
...conditions designed to render her militarily helpless in the future. She also admits responsibility for the war and liability to make full reparation. The legal rights of inhabitants in occupied regions and the provisions of international law relating to the apportionment of public debt and the revival of pre-war treaties are recognized. Execution of the treaty is guaranteed by the League of Nations, supplemented by military conditions...
...pre-war years, it was customary to choose 22 Seniors at the first election, but this season, owing to the military conditions at College, only fifteen Seniors were taken on in February. As a total of 22 Seniors, besides the eight men chosen in their Junior year, must be elected, there still remains a minimum of four members of the Class of 1919 to be honored. In normal years, it was customary to take on a total of 40 Seniors, but owing to the fact that the present graduating class is only a little more than half the usual size...
...that no Harvard team will be abandoned by the College merely because it has begun a season in an unfortunate way. On Saturday there will be a parade to the field behind a band, and the Dartmouth game will be played to the accompaniment of a cheering section of pre-war volume. With adequate outside support, the prime essential hitherto lacking this year, the minor problems of the ball team will fade into oblivion...