Word: previously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Previous to this first Yale encounter football at Harvard had already experienced one rise and fall. The Freshman-Sophomore struggles, developing from the first "Battle of the Delta", continued through the 1804's and the next decade of the '50's, growing tougher as the years progressed, until the first Monday of the fall term became literally a "Bloody Monday," although the day may not have been so named until much later. And so, on July 2, 1860, the sport was quietly and peacefully slain by the Faculty of the College...
...cast for the leading roles of the Dramatic Club's fall production "Fiesta" has just been selected. The cast was chosen on the basis of previous experience and ability as demonstrated in tests and trials held during the past few weeks. The leading parts are being taken by F. K. Smith '30, L. O. Wallstein '32, and G. W. Harrington '30, C. C. Leatherbee '29, president of the Dramatic Club; who was to have taken one of the leading parts will be unable to do so because of illness. The feminine parts are taken by women who have appeared...
...other significant trend shown in the present report finds English, which has held the lead for the past six years, superseded numerically by Economics. And this is not the first time that Economics has come to the fore; previous to the ascendancy of English the Department of Economics held away during several desultory years. The movement is patently variable and the reasons for the present turn at best only hypothetical. It may be that more students are now concentrating in Economics than in English or any of the sciences because the propensities of the modern Harvard mind tend toward...
Among other large fields showing gains over the previous year, the departments of History and Literature, the Fine Arts and Bio-Chemical Sciences, are outstanding. Fine Arts has risen from the tenth to the sixth largest field in two years. Government, Mathematics, Philosophy, Psychology and the Romance Languages all show losses...
...total of 2,370 concentrators, 35 percent, 830 in number, are now candidates for honors. This is an increase of 3.7 percent over last year and 6.7 percent over the previous year. Mathematics shows the highest percentage of candidates for honors, with 55.3 percent of its students enroled as seeking the degree with honors. History and Literature rates second with 48 percent honors seekers, and Government third with 42 percent...