Word: prior
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...under college authority twice a year, the Pierian is always down upon the programme as supplying the music; and the singing of the Glee Club on the green at Class Day is renowned. Professor Paine himself had conducted the chapel choir since 1862; and for a number of years prior to 1870 the catalogue had a meagre notice of some "instruction in vocal music, with special reference to the chapel exercises." This seems to have been sorely needed, to judge from the mournful utterances concerning the music at chapel, to be found in the college journals of the time...
...association: Harvard-Profs. Norton, Goodwin, and White; Brown-Prof. Harkness; Columbia-Prof. Drisler, and Princeton by Prof. Sloane. There were also present Messrs. DePeyster and Ludlow, of New York. The first duty before the committee was to pass resolutions on the death of Prof. Packard, who was acting director, prior to the directorship of the present incumbent. After this a report was read from Prof. Van Benscohoten, which was exceedingly favorable and showed the growing success of the school. He stated that the library now contained 2,000 volumes of valuable works relating to classical study. All the leading archaeological...
...result of yesterday's race, however, is but a fresh example of the little reliance which can be placed upon estimates of a crew's efficiency which are based only upon the reports of its performances prior to the decisive contest. The crew which represented the Blue and White in this season's race is one of which Columbia may well be proud, and our own crew, too, has every reason to congratulate itself upon its success in crossing the finish in the lead, for its opponents proved themselves, by their splendid rowing, to be no unworthy rivals...
...courts are to be held in common, no one has a prior right to any one of them. The first man who comes can play on any court he finds vacant, and cannot be dispossessed of the court unless it can be shown that he is injuring it in some...
...occupied by boys from the Cambridge schools, probably, some of whom, to judge by their looks, will soon be old enough to enter the primary school. Waiving the question of how much good they can get from these lectures, I think that the students in the college have a prior claim to the seats. At the next lecture the rules which I quoted above should be enforced...