Word: prior
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attempts judgments only open to the specialist. Every man to a certain extent must be a smatterer. It may be necessary to lessen the preponderance of time given to the classics in a liberal education. This many are ready to admit. But that the common ground of studies prior to the college course should be altogether broken up, that all educated men are to be marked out as specialists even from their cradles, is a thing hard to receive...
...announcement of a course of study to extend over a period of at least three years, and perhaps to come in as the sequel to a prior course of elementary study intended to lead...
...unusually large audience assembled in Sever last night to hear Mr. Taussig's last lecture on "Tariff Legislation." The preceding lectures have taken up and described the legislation prior to the war of 1861, and it was with the act passed in this year that Mr. Taussig began. The act of 1857 had so far reduced duties in general that temporary loans had to be made, and this fact gave rise to the preparation of the Morrill bill in 1861. The object of the bill was to cause duties to return to what they were...
...veto, putting a high tariff on copper. In 1872 Mr. John Hayes proposed a reduction of ten percent. on all duties, a scheme which so pleased Congress that it was passed only to be changed, however, in 1875, when the tariff rate went back to what it had been prior...
...race between Yale and Harvard shall be considered an annual event; but, in case of the inability of either party to send a crew to such annual race, notice of their inability shall be sent to the other party prior to December 1st of that college year...