Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although a large group of University janitors had petitioned Mulvihill for the report, only 60 HUERA members attended the pre-election day meeting. They took no action other than the appointment of a committee to study constitutional revisions...
...appears that the name was given to the herb by Joseph Pitton Tournefort [1575-1626], an eminent botanist of the pre-Linnaean era. Tournefort, it may be noted, studied medicine for two years; could it be that in Europe the qualities were known as well as they were to the Shoshone Indians...
Davidson is one of the few schools where a knowledge of Greek or Latin is still a pre-requisite for the Bachelor of Arts degree (Harvard abolished this requirement with the class of 1950). Davidson men are required to take two years of Bible study, two years of English, a year of mathematics, a year of a laboratory science, a year of history, and two years of a foreign language. By requiring these courses, the college hopes to provide each student with a common core of knowledge regardless of his field of concentration...
Over half of Davidson's graduates enter some type of graduate school. Approximately 25 per cent of the student body are pre-medical students. Nine Rhodes scholars have been chosen from the ranks of Davidson...
Fogg's operational expenses have spiraled constantly; in 1909 the cost was $5,420, mounting to the pre-war peak...