Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...clash between the two forces is imminent. Hitherto we in this country have merely toyed with the problems of militarism and armament. Today the question is one of vital concern which, if the varying editorial policies of the press are at all significant, may come to a head as early as in the next Congress...
...much interested with the actual results of the outside games as with the development of material. The work has been extremely valuable, both in improving the men, and in bringing out new material. A very large proportion of the candidates this fall were men who have not hitherto been on the University squad...
...collection of ethnological specimens has recently been received by the University of Pennsylvania Museum from Dr. William G. Farabee, who is at the head of the university's Amazon expedition. The specimens were collected in the southern part of British Gulana among the Carib and Arowak Indians and other hitherto unknown tribes. They include clothing for men and women, made from the feathers of the Macan and other birds of rich plumage, paintings of religious ceremonials on sticks, bead work, bows, and arrows, spears, hammocks and domestic utensils. None of them, according to archaeoligists at the university, show any trace...
...been one great objection to American football, -- that it was not a game, but a profession; that unlike baseball it could not be played for the sake of the game itself. "Scrub" baseball is admittedly possible, witness the success of the Leiter Cup series, but scrub football has been hitherto untried. This year however, the Haughton Cup is to be given for football, precisely as the Leiter Cup for baseball. Not only is there a chance for those who like the game, yet are not of University calibre, but there is also the opportunity to secure first class coaching...
...English literature, Dr. Bernbaum has made an important contribution in "The Mary Carleton Narratives 1663-1673,--A Missing Chapter in the History of the English Novel." This intrinsically interesting book is significant since it shows that even in the Restoration Period the art of realistic fiction was practiced. Hitherto the narratives were thought to be biographical instead of fictional. The Press also announces a translation by G. W. Robinson, Secretary of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, of "Eugippius: The Life of Saint Severinus," a document of the history and life of the Fifth Century, for the first time...