Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...response to the demand for a more pretentious organ of the Federation than the handbook hitherto published, it was decided to start a Graduate Student's Magazine. Dr. Barclay W. Bradley of Philadelphia has been chosen as Editor-in-Chief...
...differences between the North and the South before the rise of the cotton States were not racial, but social and industrial. Hitherto the civilization of the South has been studied from the outside alone, and as a result the South has been put in a false light. The intellectual life of these States was limited, but not arrested. Their social life was unfruitful in philanthropy and literature, but it was then more charming than any other mode of life in America...
...recent change in the arrangement of the shower baths at the Gymnasium remedies what was hitherto a serious fault of the equipment. Formerly the hot water was led from a tank containing water at a boiling temperature, and mixed with water at the same pressure by adjustment at the valves connected with each shower. Caroless turning on of the hot water or increased flow of hot water, due to the shutting off of other valves in the shower-room, frequently led to unpleasant scalding accidents. An automatic temperature regulator has now been introduced which does not allow the water...
...result of his work, Professor Robinson has brought back for deposit in the Gray Hebarium many photographs and drawings of these plants, hitherto imperfectly understood upon this side of the Atlantic...
Professor Sabine has recently published a valuable pamphlet on architectural acoustics, dealing with reverberation. He has worked out and demonstrated as facts, matters about which nothing has been known hitherto. In designing halls and auditoriums, the question of acoustic properties has been one incapable of scientific solution before the completion of a building, but by the laws which Professor Sabine has worked out, good results can be assured at the start. He has made a study of halls all over the country, and in the construction of the new Boston Music Hall the arrangement of seats and galleries and other...