Word: prior
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...likely that Gen. Grant will accept the President's invitation to become his guest before the latter part of March, when he expects to stop at the White House for a few days prior to making a visit to the South...
...question, then, seems to be this: Should a student who has occupied a certain piece of land for tennis playing in the fall or spring, have a prior claim (prior, that is to say, to that of his fellow-students) to the use of that land for the same purpose in the following spring or fall? We think that he should. For in the case of land not belonging, by natural right, to either of two persons, that one most assuredly has the better claim to its occupancy who has expended most labor and money upon its improvement. The improvements...
...comers, but it would be little different from the system pursued in the matter of College rooms. And in fact, does it not seem that when a student who has occupied a room for one year and done nothing towards improving it, is considered to have a prior claim to that room against perhaps a dozen new-comers, who are willing and eager to pay the rent for it, - does it not seem that a man who has really spent labor and money upon improving a piece of ground, has a better claim to it than one who merely...
...PRIOR to the twelfth hegira all the good and evil in the world had been attributed to four causes, Material (good), Formal (good), Efficient (bad), Final (very bad), first formulated by the great Stagirite. ???en ???thre came a new man, who said that there were not enough, and added a fifth, the Lost Cause (worst of all). This man was St. Behoene, a celebrated physicist (who flourished in the time of Abelard and Heloise), canonized on account of his broad charity for all who held opinions different from his own. His bones now rest quietly in the little Monastery...
...contest to Coolidge, who cleared 4 ft. 9 in., thus placing an American amateur best on record to his credit. The best record previous to this was 4 ft. 8 in., made by Messrs. F. Larkin, of Princeton, and P. Dana, of Dartmouth. At Harvard, the best record, prior to Mr. Coolidge's performance, was 4 ft. 7 1/2 in., made by Latham, '77, on March 4, 1876; and, last year, 4 ft. 5 in. gave the contest to J. L. Paine, '81, Keene dropping...