Word: pre
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...others; rows of long wooden tables; plates of cheese and pretzels, movies in which Douglas Fairbanks will climb all ever the wrinkled sheet hung at the end of the Living Room, and the inevitable speeches. It is altogether fitting that the Seniors should celebrate in the manner of their pre-war Freshman and Sophomore years the last evening before they conceal their physical eccentricities and their precarious relations with the College Office beneath caps and gowns...
With the recent announcement of the courses of instruction offered next year by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, a considerable number of changes are to be noted. Many of these are due to the return of the University to its pre-war schedule of two terms, which necessitates alteration in the arrangement of the courses. Other changes have been brought about by new conditions and by the addition of new instructors...
...with great satisfaction that the University notes the return of many prominent members of the Faculty from war work. The announcement of courses for the academic year 1919-20 has much of the appearance of the pamphlet of a pre-war day, and the bandying of thirds of courses will be a bogey of the past with the resumption of the old academic year...
...news that twenty-nine percent of all eligible undergraduates are taking part in one or another of the four major sports this spring is at least worthy of comment. It will come as a decided surprise to many of the older graduates who in pre-war days were wont to compare eleven men on the football team to the whole seething cheering-sections which gave them lusty support. "Why is there not a chance on some team or crew for every man who wants to take part in a college sport?" these graduates asked. Generally there was an answer...
...describing the work of the heavy artillery branch, Lieut. Col. A. R. Edwards, Professor of Military Science and Tactics at Columbia recently explained the plan as follows: "Membership in the heavy artillery unit will be open to pre-engineering students in their second college year, and should be completed at the end of the second year in the graduate Engineering School, four years in all. Courses in gunnery, orientation, artillery fundamentals, embracing field service regulations, military law, and artillery material will be given...