Word: beforehand
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...only themselves, but the College justice. The Executive Committee are certainly deserving of praise for this attempt to stimulate our athletic contests, as well as for the prompt and thorough manner with which they have attended to the track, and all pertaining to the meeting so long beforehand...
...also seems unjust to refuse a cup where there is only one entry. The chief object of the H. A. A. is to encourage athletics here. Now, as the contestants in many of the events of the in-door meeting practise together daily, it is well known beforehand who is likely to win; and often the man whose chances are best is left to enter the contest alone. Hence, under the present rule, a man is actually discouraged from trying to excel, knowing that if he acquires a decided superiority over others, no one will enter against...
...MORE than a week ago we received the following letter from a Philadelphia lady. Anticipating an earlier issue of the Crimson, she had sent us her description, as is customary nowadays, beforehand. Unfortunately, an entirely unexplainable circumstance prevented the concert she describes from taking place, although all the arrangements for it had been made, and seven hundred tickets had been sold. But out of respect for our fair correspondent we have concluded, notwithstanding, to print her letter...
...each case the same amount of work must be reviewed with the same amount of carefulness. Hence it follows that, if the time of preparation be shortened, we shall either have to sit up all night while the examinations last, or else neglect our recitations for a fortnight beforehand...
...author of an editorial in the Crimson. The opinions expressed are always the result of deliberation by the whole board of editors, and no one of them bears or can bear more than a tenth part of the responsibility. An editorial on any important subject is invariably read beforehand at the editors' meeting, and there criticised and altered. It is so much the custom among our readers to regard the editorials as anonymous expressions of individual opinion, that we cannot hope to persuade them all of the falseness of their theory; but we hope that those who are really interested...