Word: quondam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this point it is customary to bring in "the old giving place to the new" and the rest of such shibboleths. There seems nothing more appropriate; the present situation is a hybrid, and the task of superimposing a system including tutors and general examinations on a quondam rigid course system is at best a difficult one. Unity of purpose and a community of ideas is essential to real progress; it is Edward Arlington Robinson who writes of the man "Who sees the new and cannot leave the old." In the main it is well not to have the changes every...