Word: hitherto
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...correspondent of a London literary journal announces the discovery of a new autograph of John Harvard, the founder of Harvard University. The only writing of his hitherto known to exist are the two signatures in the registry of Cambridge University...
...hypothesis, and believe in the objectivity of relations. In his article in the Monthly he implies that any sort of idealistic philosophy is incompatible with the recognition of objective relations. Now I have no doubt that all of the young men of Harvard whom the author addressed especially, have hitherto had the impression that some of the forms of idealism are as consistent with the scientific method, at least as ordinarily defined, as either realism or dualism can be. Objectivity is not necessarily material. But if we err on this point, we are willing to be corrected, in fact stand...
Under this title, Mr. W. Goodrich Beal has brought together six original etchings of glimpses in and about Harvard Square. This is Mr. Beal's first publication. Indeed his name has hitherto been unknown, but this work has already received high praise from the Boston press, and deserves to win no small share of recognition. Perhaps the best of the etchings-certainly the most delicate and expressive one-is that of the old church-yard with the low tower of Christ Church amid the trees. It is full of the beauful air of repose which has endeared Gray's "Elegy...
...issues of the year. Oliver Cromwell's portralt appears as its frontispiece, incident to the romantic story of the first settlement of Shelter Island, in 1652, told by Mrs Lamb in her happiest vein, entitled the "Historic Home of the Sylvesters." The paper is informing on a multitude of hitherto obscure points in early American history, and is delightfully diversified with incidents. Rev. Philip Schaff, D. D., contributes a second paper on the "Relation of Church and State in America." A very pleasantly written sketch is by Walstein Root, on the "Hamilton Oneida Academy in 1794," the germ of Hamilton...
...Sonnet" is very pleasing, and as the production of a writer hitherto unknown in the Monthly, if I mistake not, is distinctly encouraging...