Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Rhodes Scholar I wish to protest gently against some of the suggestions of the editorial entitled "Rhodes Scholars Old and New." That "hitherto American Rhodes Scholars were not a great success at Oxford" and that the "Yankee" at Oxford has not been truly representative of the best that America can produce, are two assumptions which I doubt if you are entitled to make, however little I may be in a position gracefully to repute them. If you are under the impression that recent writings in the Atlantic Monthly give you authority, a less cursory reading of those articles will answer...
...English is the program of Mr. Edward M. Beck, managing director of the Boston English Opera Company. His aim, as expressed in an interview yesterday, is to provide for the American singer in this country an opportunity comparable at least to that given to the foreigners who have hitherto dominated our opera...
...Hereafter, also, there will be a greater importance attached to the study of social questions. Social economy and kindred subjects will assume far larger proportions than hitherto. All that pertains to society should be considered as a field of objective research for science...
...game hard fought from start to finish, the Princeton Freshmen on Saturday clearly outplayed the Crimson yearlings by a score of 13-0. With a series of fast end runs, smashes at tackle, and a clever assortment of well-executed passes, the Tiger cubs dazzled the hitherto unbeaten Freshmen...
...need not worry about giving foreign immigrants the opportunity to derive the benefits of universal military service. They have had that precious privilege in Europe for years and it has been one of the things that has caused people to come to the United States, hitherto free from the blight of Europe...