Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much has been said upon your entering the final stage of your education, and much remains to be said. You have already received countless notices from University Hall informing you of the more routine duties which must be performed prior to your first glimpse of Harvard College. Upon your arrival in Cambridge you are greeted with still more baffling tasks and duties which will keep you occupied for the majority of your time for the next three days. Advice and warning will be issued to you ad infinitum until it may seem that all Harvard is but one round...
...Prior to March 4, 1933, when a statesman solemnly announced that he favored upholding the Constitution, U. S. citizens quietly turned to their sports pages and forgot him. If he asserted that the Government ought to protect property rights, ought to encourage men to earn, save, acquire and keep property, he could not stir even a flutter of interest. But last week when six eminent gentlemen propounded these propositions they made front-page news. Finally it seemed as if the New Deal were to meet something more potent than the disorganized opposition of Herbert Hoover's well-beaten henchmen...
...principle of the Guide itself needs little justification at this late date. When first published in the regular columns of the CRIMSON in 1925, it caused widespread favorable comment, both in the daily press and in publications of other colleges. Prior to its appearance, the student's sources of information concerning his prospective courses were limited and haphazard. There was the bloodless and formal description in the catalogue which described the course but which in the nature of things could tell nothing of its practical soundness, of its enjoyability, or of the comparative capability of the instructor. And there...
...life aboard the lightship is not Author Binns's chief concern. The more poignant portions of his book record the stormy lives of the nine men prior to their seeking sanctuary on No. 167. Samples...
Birthdays. George Bernard Shaw, 78; Col. Edward Mandell House, 76; Henry Ford, 71; Don Marquis, 56; Benito Mussolini, 51; Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee...