Word: prior
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...curious incident has been recalled which may be of interest to many. Several years ago a discussion arose between the university and a college located farther west as to the prior claim to the color which distinguished Harvard, and which was then called magenta. Of course the usual amount of college newspaper squabbling ensued, and for a time it was impossible to settle the dispute amicably. The western college at last declared most solemnly and officially that magenta had been selected by them as a college color in 1857, when the whole controversy collapsed at the reply of Harvard that...
...supervision of the faculty. At his application, the candidate will be subjected to a preliminary examination, and at the conclusion of his course, a rigid examination will be required of him on the chief subject and the two subsidiary subjects which he has studied. Before getting his degrees and prior to the final examination, a thesis of not less than 12,000 words will be required of him. He also shall pay the sum of $40 on application; $20 at each examination and $50 on the conferring of the degrees, all of which sums shall be expended in the expenses...
...right with men to achieve a collegiate education. Those who oppose the plan of co-education and decry its efficacy as a plan of education, are forced to advance arguments drawn from the domestic relations of woman to the home and the fact that the creation of Adam was prior to that of Eve. But when all has been said that can be said upon either side of the question, the fact yet remains that the world to-day is beginning to allow to women equal rights with men in every field which women care to enter. The recent action...
...this dinner the Denver paper also remarks editorially: "The Rocky Mountain Harvard Club, which was organized prior to the first annual dinner of the Association, will surely exert an influence for good in the New West. Its first Banquet was a success in every way - a delightful 'spread,' and particularly entertaining in the social speeches which followed...
...championship foot-ball game between '87 and '88 yesterday was postponed till to-day, on account of Mr. Holden's prior engagement...