Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...kicks. Each of the first three teams then had a turn at receiving kick-offs and carrying the ball back. The scrimmage was called at 5 o'clock when the black-jerseyed squad trotted onto the Stadium gridiron. The University team showed to better advantage than it has hitherto and made long gains through the seconds at will. C. A. Clark, Jr., Occ., scrimmaged for the first time...
...making this new step, the University is carrying further its task of preparing men for the world. Hitherto, it has merely provided opportunities for physical as well as mental training, and left to the student the choice of taking them or leaving them; and some few champions of the old order decry this latest move, saying that upon the individual and not upon the College falls the stigma of an illdeveloped body. They insist that Harvard should not become a "Glorified boarding school," but should encourage individuality and discourage the "type" by allowing its students a free rein...
This latest step in preparing men to play an active and intelligent part in the affairs of the world is a fitting addition to the almost all-embracing training Harvard has hitherto offered...
...field to which the student is supposed to have given special attention ought to go far toward making the college course what it is often quite mistakenly said to be, a preparation for life. It ought to enable the University to affirm, with greater confidence than has hitherto been possible, that its graduate known his general subject, and is also, in respect of it, an educated person. It ought to improve the quality and widen the range of instruction, if the point of view of the professor and that of the student are not to be hopelessly divergent. It ought...
...could almost weep at the puerility of the editorial writer who made the magnificent suggestion as to the distribution of debating medals in yesterday morning's CRIMSON. We had hitherto labored under the impression that the columns of the CRIMSON were not open to attempts at parody of the same type as the red and yellow leaflets recently distributed as samples of undergraduate literary genius. Evidently the writer of the editorial headed "Medals for All" is an aspirant for the same kind of notoriety...