Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...authorities are making every effort toward producing a team that will win the Princeton debate. The loss of the Harvard debate was a great disappointment to the whole university. A change will probably be made in the method of selecting the team which will result in the choice of hitherto inexperienced men. An urgent appeal has been made to the undergraduates to give debating their entire support...
...error on which the three-year idea is based seems to be that the degree of Bachelor of Arts simply denotes that its holder has done the work of seventeen courses. If that were true, the three-year plan would have no opponents. What the degree has hitherto meant, however, is that its holder, if he is a "competent" man, has lived for four years an academic life, in which he has pursued liberal studies with some success, in which he has had an opportunity to partake in one or more of the College activities, and in which...
...year idea, attain? As a Freshman, he will have to take six courses; as a Sophomore, six; as a so called Senior, five. Academic regulations being unfortunately unable to provide more than twenty-four hours in each day, how will he use his time? If the amount of work hitherto required in the courses is not to be lessened, your "competent" man must do one of two things: either he must do College work of a lower grade, or, what perhaps would be worse, he must neglect those outside interests, social, athletic, or literary, which are the invaluable complement...
...swimming teams has made arrangements for the use of the Dunster tank by candidates for the relay swimming, water polo, and diving teams, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings between 8.30 and 9.30 o'clock. The Dunster tank is more suitable than the Craigie tank, where practice has hitherto been held, because of greater size...
...declared by President Eliot to be one of determined support to the requirement of a bachelor's degree, or its equivalent, for admission to the professional schools, as now in force in the departments of theology, law and medicine at Harvard, and to an even higher standard than has hitherto been set for the degree of A.B. It is true that President Eliot describes the recognition and encouragement now given at Harvard to the three-years' or the three and a half years' college course, but he makes it clear that the quantity of work as measured by the required...