Word: hitherto
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...love for paintings, and their pictures resemble painting in the mode of treatment, in contrast to the Italian engravings, which are merely reproductions of pen and ink drawings. This desire of the Germans to make their engravings look like paintings led to a very important advance in the art. Hitherto all the lines, with the exception of the outline, had been straight, but now the German school of engraving began to curve their lines, in order better to express the modelling. This resulted in great improvement in style. Mr. Koehler then showed by means of the stereopticon, photographs of several...
...west end, and the Hekatompedos became the nave of the church, an aps being constructed at this end of the temple. The great chamber, or Parthenon, became the antechamber of the church, and was connected with the Hekatompedos by doors cut through the solid wall which had hitherto separated them. The interior arrangement of the temple was so changed as to make it conform to that of a Christian church, and vaulted ceilings were introduced...
...there has been at any time a feeling that these meetings were not a success, were not fulfilling the object for which they were intended, it must now have disappeared. The meeting of Tuesday evening was of the greatest use in enabling the students to see the hitherto obnoxious and ill-understood recommendations of the Overseers in a much more satisfactory light...
...should invade the obvious rights of the football team, and trample on common decency for the sake of getting the money. There are over three hundred men in the freshman class; if from this number of men enough money cannot be obtained, as it has from all classes hitherto, for the support of the eight, the crew had better suspend operations at once...
Another valuable article announces the discovery last summer of a portrait of Washington hitherto unknown and uncatalogued, belonging to a Mr. Peter de Vries, of Arnhem, Holland. The circumstances in regard to the discovery of the portrait are very singular and are well worth the reading. An unpublished fac-simile letter of Washington to James Duane in 1780 also appears. The other papers contributed are: "A Canadian-American Liaison," by Watson Griffing; "The Oriental Account of the Discovery of America;" by A. J. Hall; "The Mound-Builders and the North American Indians," by J. H. Patton; "Slavery in New York...