Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...originally set at about $33,000,000,000, but the amount which is now thought possible to collect from Germany stands at approximately $10,000,000,000. Moreover, Germany has by a policy of inflation cancelled her entire internal debt of $50,000,000,000 (1918 value-the pre-War value would have been...
...true that the point at issue in recent discussions has been "whether Harvard can be simultaneously pre-eminent in scholarship and athletics." It is truer to say that alumni have become fearful that Harvard's broad tradition of scholarship and culture is being sacrificed to the more specialized development of the tutorial system and of certain graduate schools. It is admittedly difficult to strike a satisfactory balance between athletics and scholarship in a college: certainly no just observer can find fault with President Lowell for his present course...
...classical background would be extremely valuable; and he could postpone his concentration in English until he got into the professional school, which would in this case be the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. So it is with other subjects; there are usually a few indispensable courses for pre-professional work, like Chemistry, Physics, and Biology for those who are going into medicine; but rarely is the number of these subjects too great to permit concentration else where. Such a non-vocational concentration provides a man with an avocation for later life, and in the opinion of many it deepens...
...many new and excellent things have come out of the West that it seems quite unnecessary for Westerners to cover what must be a conviction of inferiority with continued examples of territorial pre-eminence, Western institutions and ideas, especially in the educational field, no longer require justification...
With examples like these the campaign cannot fail of success. One more amendment to the Constitution will help render law-enforcement more nearly impossible. A new sort of bootlegger will arise, who, after saluting his customer with a knowing wink, will offer "A carton of pre-war Luckies, toasted and aged in the wood--genuine stuff, best on this side of the Atlantic...