Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will make one of the most notable events of the year. It is long since Harvard has had a similar opportunity of combined instruction and enjoyment, and the presentation of the play will be awaited with eagerness. It is thoroughly refreshing to have features of ancient life which have hitherto had all the dryness of text-books about them, quickened into real significance for us. Interest in the play will by no means be confined to classical scholars. A very large proportion of the students will feel themselves indebted to the men who have unreservedly spent their time and labor...
...university authorities desire at this time to call the attention of the students boarding at the dining hall to the importance of maintaining good order in and around the building, and to ask their cordial cooperation in this matter. Hitherto the privileges of the hall have been offered to the members of the academical and scientific departments only, and it is the earnest wish of the authorities that they may be able to continue this arrangement...
GENTLEMEN: I have not hitherto asked you to accept a subscription from me to the Bolles Memorial Fund because it seemed plain that the lead should be taken by undergraduates and graduates of recent years...
Military drill will probably be given up at Stanford University owing to the small amount of interest shown by the students. The drill has hitherto been conducted by an officer of the regular army who has been specially detailed for the purpose, and every inducement has been offered to make the course popular. Formerly, students who took drill received credit for two hours. Now but one hour's credit is given, and only five applicants for the course appeared at the beginning of the term. The officer in charge will probably hand in his resignation at once...
...asserted that University Extension is beginning to change the ideals of education in England,- that Extension lecturers and the striking results of their work are gradually turning the great universities from the extreme scholastic specialism which has hitherto predominated to a more liberal and culture-giving system of education...